Migrant Crisis Series

Today's immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum

Oct 04, 2016 09:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

As a dock city, Liverpool has served as a gateway to the sugar trade, slavery and global transport for hundreds of years. It has long been a city of immigrants from Ireland, India and Pakistan to Somalia, Ethiopia and...

R&D tax incentives need to be simple and underpin investor confidence

Oct 04, 2016 07:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Economy

Few examples of Australian tax policy are subject to as frequent change as the Research Development tax subsidy, again under review by the federal government. Substantive changes to the rules have occurred every five of...

Consumers don't understand smartphone contracts

Oct 04, 2016 07:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Consumers are confident they understand the contract they sign when buying a smartphone, but our research shows they dont comprehend these documents very much at all. In fact the more information they are provided with the...

EU Extends Google’s Deadline To Respond Regarding Antitrust Charges

Oct 04, 2016 06:56 am UTC| Technology Law

Google was just given its fourth extension by the EU to rebut the antitrust charges raised against it. The charges pertain to Googles methods of having Android phone makers install the tech giants products ahead of launch,...

Apple To Pay $300M To VirnetX After Losing Patent Retrial, Could Be More

Oct 03, 2016 08:20 am UTC| Technology Law

Apple just lost a retrial against VirnetX in a Texas court and has been ordered to pay the notorious company $302 million. At least this is lower than the $625 million that the tech giant was ordered to pay in a previous...

No Hope For Proponents of US ICANN Monopoly, Independence Inevitable

Oct 03, 2016 00:20 am UTC| Technology Law

Right now, the U.S. has control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN, which is an organization that records all domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. This control is about to...

Responding to student protests: should the law be a tool of justice or violence?

Sep 30, 2016 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

What is needed to enable South Africas universities to proceed with the academic year? The answer, according to some, is to deploy private security companies on campuses. Several of those who support such interventions...