Sydney Criminal Lawyers | Australia | 13 Jan 2023
The Australian Constitution is the founding document of the nation, which provides the basic rules of how government is formed and the processes by…
Preslmayr Attorneys at Law | Austria | 14 Sep 2022
In Austria, as in many other countries, efforts have been made to legalise hemp and cannabis. In 2021, an application was filed with the Constitutional Court to declare several provisions of the Act on Addictive Drugs as unconstitutional and certain provisions of the Regulation on Addictive Drugs as illegal. However, the Court chose not to enter into a closer review of the cannabis ban and......
Garrigues | Chile | 22 Aug 2022
Las disposiciones que regulan la tutela de derechos fundamentales en el Proyecto de nueva Constitución (NC) pronto a someterse a plebiscito, se…
Garrigues | Chile | 12 Aug 2022
En el Proyecto de nueva Constitución (NC) chilena, que está próximo a someterse a plebiscito, lo financiero adopta una posición relevante e…
Garrigues | Chile | 2 Aug 2022
El Proyecto de nueva Constitución en Chile ya tiene su texto armonizado y está pronto a someterse a votación en el plebiscito que se llevará a cabo…
Leks&Co | Indonesia | 26 Jul 2022
In November 2021, the Constitutional Court declared that the Job Creation Law 2020 was conditionally unconstitutional and instructed the government to revise the law within two years. The court's decision is historic and important – the government will need to learn from it the hard way. The government should rectify the issue immediately to avoid causing further legal uncertainty, which is......
Garrigues | Chile | 28 Jun 2022
El próximo 4 de septiembre se llevará a cabo el plebiscito sobre la Nueva Constitución (“NC”). El texto armonizado del Proyecto trata materias…
Augusta Abogados | Spain | 25 May 2022
Order TMA/201/2022 was recently published in the Spanish Official Gazette, approving a new alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedure for air passenger claims in Spain. There are substantive arguments that would allow the challenge of the new order (and of the laws that it develops) both on the basis of the body designated to resolve the new ADR procedure and on certain procedural......
Martínez Algaba de Haro y Curiel | Mexico | 15 Mar 2022
A new interpretation has been made on the scope of the diffuse control of constitutionality in amparo trials. An "amparo trial" is where a federal judge or court is requested to analyse the constitutionality of a specific act of an authority. The interpretation is more in line with the spirit of the amendment of the Mexican Constitution in 2011 since it seeks to provide amparo judges and......
Machado Meyer Advogados | Brazil | 10 Feb 2022
Two recent decisions of the Appellate State Court of São Paulo have put the confidentiality of arbitration proceedings at risk, resulting in the disclosure of the parties to the arbitration, their information and documents, the arbitrators' names, the motions filed and decisions issued throughout the arbitration. This article analyses the provisions in Brazilian law on confidentiality of......