Much recent policing reform has been concerned with strengthening organisational and individual accountability through complaints, discipline systems and external oversight. Civil litigation against police has largely been ignored as an accountability measure.This research aimed to broaden the understanding of police litigation in Australia, and determine the implications for its use as an acco...

Abstract As consolidated multidistrict litigation has come to dominate the federal civil docket, problem of how divide attorney fees among participating firms become source frequent and protracted litigation. For example, in National Football League (NFL) Concussion Litigation, judge awarded plaintiff attorneys over $100 million fees, but division those twenty-six involved sparked two additiona...

Abstract The article takes the spectacular Shell ruling from Hague as an opportunity to identify cross-jurisdictional problems of civil climate change litigation. case was first action between private parties that successful in instance and led Shell’s obligation drastically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, including Scope 3 emissions. From perspective legal realism, Dutch provides a moment...

Introduction Claims of medical negligence are universal. Unexpected adverse pregnancy outcome may trigger litigation. Such outcomes, especially with neurodevelopmental sequelae, be compounded by a genetic disorder, congenital abnormality or syndrome. Material and methods This is report 297 cases in which complication, error incident occurred that was followed progeny syndrome, spawned The autho...

Recent years have borne witness to a striking increase in expenditures on legal services.’ Various critics of the U.S. legal system have accordingly argued that amounts currently spent on or in anticipation of disputes are socially excessive, and several writers have attempted to address the issue through economic analysis.’ Much of the economic literature has centered on the choice between lit...

introduction: esthetic surgeries are among the commonest medical procedures in the world nowadays; and as statistics declare, there has been a rapid increase in the rate of rhinoplasty during the recent years. hence, as the number of cosmetic surgeries rises, the increment in the number of physicians being sued is quite inevitable; either due to complication in rhinoplasties or even inability t...

The International Trade Commission (ITC) is an alternate venue for holders of U.S. patents to pursue litigation against infringing products produced abroad and imported to the United States. Because the ITC may only grant injunctive relief, it has awarded injunctions in situations where there may have been better and more efficient remedies to the infringement available through litigation in fe...

In June 2005, United States District Court Judge Janis Graham Jack of the Southern District of Texas issued a landmark opinion declaring that all but one of ten thousand cases aggregated for pretrial purposes under Multidistrict Litigation (“MDL”) 1553 were based on “fatally unreliable” diagnoses.1 Judge Jack found that the claims “were driven by neither health nor justice: they were manufactur...