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Earlier this month, Cuba became the fourth country to challenge Australia’s plain tobacco packaging law by requesting consultations with Australia through the World Trade Organization (WTO). Tobacco companies can’t bring claims directly in the WTO, but the industry has stated publicly that it is helping countries bring these ... keep reading
Written by Tania Voon and Andrew Mitchell /The Conversation this week, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Health, Industry & Business, Intellectual Property, Law, Politics & Government, Population, Poverty & Development
If you’ll pardon the pun, there’s no doubt there will be plenty of fuming legal debates that go on once the idea of plain packaging of cigarettes moves beyond an idea and into everyday New Zealand life. Intellectual property lawyers like myself are moved to ponder questions such ... keep reading
Written by Sébastien Aymeric this month, about Consumerism, Corporate Social Responsibility, Design, Health, Intellectual Property, Law (1 comment)
A range of well-known New Zealand groups and individuals have today slammed the government’s controversial move to criminalise aspects of peaceful protests at sea. In a joint statement, Greenpeace, Rt Hon Geoffrey Palmer QC, Peter Williams QC, WWF, Forest and Bird, Dame Anne Salmond, Rikirangi Gage of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Coal & Oil, Environmental Disasters, Law, Politics & Government (1 comment)
One of the nastiest little pieces of law change to come from the National Government has been the move to criminalise the right to protest at sea to stop deep sea drilling. A legitimate and sane thing to do if you think deep sea drilling has risks too many and ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Coal & Oil, Law, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (2 comments)
It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious . Apparently demonstrators in boats out trying to show oil drilling companies that they don’t want the risks and perils of deep sea oil drilling are "reckless and dangerous" Apparently deep sea oil drilling isn’t So the Government, through ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Law, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (1 comment)
This is a case study about the need to get obesity prevention regulation right. Freddie Brown A US judge has prevented the board of the New York department of health from implementing a regulation limiting the size of sugary drinks to 16 ounces (473ml). While this may be seen as ... keep reading
Written by Bebe Loff/The Conversation in March, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Health, Law, Politics & Government (1 comment)
A reported 10 billion drink containers are thrown away in Australia every year. Many of these are recycled, but many end up in landfill, on roadsides and in waterways. The danger posed to wildlife by plastic waste is well documented, as is the life of non-biodegradable waste in landfill or ... keep reading
Written by Robin Tennant-Wood in March, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Law, Politics & Government, Transparency, waste (1 comment)
A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. There’s nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established ... keep reading
Written by Films for Action in March, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Farming, Food, Industry & Business, Intellectual Property, Law (1 comment)
James & Wells Intellectual Property has achieved a massive 43 per cent reduction in emissions during its first year being CEMARS® certified. As the first intellectual property law firm in the world to achieve certification, this reduction blitzed the firm’s carbon footprint reduction target by more than eight times. Senior ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in February, about carbon certification, Design, Energy Saving, Industry & Business, Intellectual Property, Law
When James & Wells’ Christchurch staff relied on electronic files accessed remotely following the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, it swiftly became apparent going paperless had benefits for both staff and clients. Not only did the remote server become a life saver for the office, which couldn’t access its paper files ... keep reading
Written by Craig Tolson in February, about Design, Industry & Business, Intellectual Property, Law
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