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VoIP-Pal Provides Legal Update on the Status of Current

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WACO, Texas, June 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VoIP-Pal.com Inc. (“VoIP-Pal”, “Company”) (OTCQB: VPLM) is pleased to provide a legal update of recent developments in the current patent litigation.

  • At a hearing held on June 12, 2023, in Case No. 6:20-CV-00272-ADA the Court granted VoIP-Pal’s motion to reconsider the Court’s final construction of the term “routing message” and construed the term to mean “a message that includes a callee user name field and a route field. ”
  • VoIP-Pal has filed a stipulation dismissing its lawsuit against Samsung in the Western District of Texas (WDTX).
  • As a result of stipulations dismissing
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First successful federal age discrimination case leads to $232,000 awarded to employee who was “forced to retire”

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Age discrimination has been an area of ​​some discussion with human resources and people and culture teams with concerns over fitness for work, use of technology, physical ability and ability to adapt and change are brought into question. There are of course some positions where there are specific legal obligations around age retirement. However, in Australia most discrimination cases have been battled out in general protections claims or state discrimination cases.

The Federal Court of Australia case of Gutierrez v MUR Shipping Australia Pty Limited (No 2) [2023] FCA 567 now represents a landmark for age discrimination in the federal

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Andrew Tate served legal papers after allegations of rape and sexual assault | UK news

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Andrew Tate has been served with legal papers by lawyers representing four of his alleged victims who have accused him of rape and sexual assault.

The four women, in their late 20s and early 30s, were pursuing civil proceedings against the social media influencer and former kickboxer over alleged offenses between 2013 and 2016 while he was still living in the UK. A Crowdjustice campaign to support legal action against Tate has raised more than £18,500.

Lawyers from McCue Jury & Partners, who are representing the claimants, said they had delivered the letter to Tate in person on Wednesday at

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Legal Update for Energy Lawyers

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This newsletter provides general information and is not intended to be comprehensive or to provide specific legal advice. Professional advice appropriate to a specific situation should always be sought.

Contents:

  1. SFO Secures First Conviction of an individual for DPA Related Conduct

  2. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Outlines Long-term Strategy

  3. UK Government Introduces Corporate “Failure to Prevent Fraud” Offence

  4. Review of the Arbitration Act 1996 Second Consultation Paper

  5. English High Court Approves Service By NFT Alone

  6. High Court rules the duty of disclosure goes beyond contemporaneous documents

  7. UK to Sign Singapore
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Bill 96: Over 20 municipalities challenging Quebec French-language law in court

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Almost two dozen municipalities with bilingual status in Quebec are taking the provincial government to court to challenge parts of the French-language law – Bill 96.

The coalition of 23 municipalities led by Cote-Saint-Luc is challenging in five areas: contracts and communication, the obligation to adopt resolutions to maintain bilingual status, allegations of illegal searches and seizures, government grants and the alleged obligation to discipline employees.

Measures came into force on June 1 for Bill 96 (An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec), sparking acts of protest, including a cheeky jab from a Montreal suburb on

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Two ‘anti-woke’ candidates added to the Ontario law society board

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Howard Levitt, an employment lawyer and Financial Post columnist, and Ryan Alford, a Lakehead law professor, will join the board after two spots opened up

Published May 09, 2023 • Last updated 6 days ago • 3 minute read

Toronto's Osgoode Hall, home of the Law Society of Ontario.
Toronto’s Osgoode Hall, home of the Law Society of Ontario. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

A slate of candidates who positioned themselves as “anti-woke” standard bearers were shut out in the recent Law Society of Ontario election — but two members of that group have since been chosen to join the board of

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Appeal Court strikes down BC law that allows social workers to access parents’ medical files

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The province’s highest court found there were no safeguards in place for the disclosure of the private medical records and it said the provincial government needs to rewrite that part of its law

Published April 24, 2023 • Last updated 5 days ago • 5 minute read

The BC Court of Appeal has struck down part of a BC law that allows social workers to secretly obtain the medical and psychiatric records of mothers and fathers to determine if they were fit to parent after a constitutional challenge under Canada's illegal search and seizure laws.
The BC Court of Appeal has struck down part of a BC law that allows social workers to secretly obtain the medical and psychiatric records of mothers and fathers to determine if they were fit to parent after a constitutional challenge under Canada’s illegal search and seizure
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‘Keira’s Law’ set to educate judges on domestic violence, coercive control

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Keira’s Law has officially been passed by the Senate.

Bill C-233, more commonly known as ‘Keira’s Law,’ is meant to expand the training of judges to accept on cases surrounding domestic violence, coercive control and the ability to consider risk factors when issuing decisions.

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Canada’s Senate passes Keira’s Law aimed at educating decision-makers on domestic violence

The bill was named after Keira Kagan, a four-year-old girl who was found dead with her father at the bottom of a cliff outside of Toronto in 2022, believed to be the case of a murder-suicide.

Jennifer Kagan-Viater, Keira’s mother, describes her

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