Railway strikes in the UK have halted services throughout July and Augst 2022.
Sony, owners and creators of the gaming sensation PlayStation, have been hit with a lawsuit with a possible £5 billion pay out.
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The UK government has once again extended its trade sanctions with Russia.
The UK underwent a record-breaking heatwave in July with another hitting the country in August.
The UK has blocked a Chinese company from purchasing intellectual property from the University of Manchester using its powers under the National Security and Investment Act.
The woes of Brexit continues as businesses seek to relocate UK jobs and operation to the EU. To combat this the Bank of England is “demanding that lenders seek approval” from the Bank prior to relocation. Following concerns that EU regulators are asking more and more firms to move back to the continent.
Many words can be employed to fit the description of Donald Trump’s last days in office. The contempt he had demonstrated for national institutions, the electoral process and Joe Biden, his lack of grace in defeat, his inflammatory rhetoric… We equally observed his ruthless step-up of federal executions.
After the lawsuits against Google and Facebook for their anti-competitive behaviour, next in line was the lawsuit against Amazon filed by the D.C. Attorney General, Karl A. Racine on 25 May 2021. The suit alleges that Amazon was in violation of antitrust law by restricting third party sellers from selling their products to any other online platform than Amazon on lower prices or better terms.
The football world had erupted into chaos in a matter of days with big English teams including Manchester United, Chelsea, and Arsenal signing up for the proposed European Super League. The clubs in the proposed Super League will only play against one another in a knockout system. The formation of the Super League comes at a time when the global pandemic has accelerated the instability in the existing European football economic model.
Furthermore, for a number of years, the founding clubs have had the objective of improving the quality and intensity of existing European competitions throughout each season, and of creating a format for top clubs and players to compete on a regular basis.
This has caused a massive uproar from fans of these clubs and football fans in general.
With backing from the Pope, on 5th May President Biden expressed support for a temporary waiver on patents for Covid vaccines. At the WTO conference in Porto however, EU nations have pushed back against the proposal, suggesting instead that the US should allow the increased export of doses and key ingredients to countries that are currently facing a shortage of doses and rising death tolls,1 such as India and Brazil.
This article will examine the issue of widespread unlawful discrimination in the use of Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices in breach of Articles 7, 8, and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and some of the damaging findings before then exploring some of the suggested solutions advanced by the Committee.
