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United Kingdom - May 7 2013
A posting on a blog received various comments from its readers. Several of these comments, made over a period of three days, were defamatory of the…
Singapore - March 27 2013
A key issue in this case was the presumption of corruption where gratification has been received by a person employed by the Government, a government…
United Kingdom - June 28 2012
Where a parent company, among other things, knew that its subsidiary was using a dangerous system of work and had a practice of intervening in aspects of its subsidiary’s business, held that the parent company owed a direct duty of care to an employee of the subsidiary who had contracted asbestosis through exposure to asbestos dust as a result of the subsidiary’s system of work:.
United Kingdom - June 28 2012
Where a defendant ran a website that linked to another closely associated website in a seamless manner and where comments defamatory of the plaintiff had been posted on that other website, held that there was a case to be made that the defendant could be held liable for the comments and that the matter should proceed to trial.
Singapore - May 31 2012
The Court of Appeal recently considered when it would be unconscionable for a beneficiary of an on-demand performance bond to make a call on the bond.
