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At the moment, data is recognized globally as one of the organizations’ most important assets, thus prompting the need for a strict data protection standard.  Data is one of the company’s most important properties. When the data economy grows, businesses compile, exchange and use data at a tremendous price. Companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon…

Introduction  President Trump in a press conference has declared that the US is soon ending its relationship with the World Health Organization. With this move of the US, it seems that along with the COVID 19 pandemic the leading international health organization is also stuck in a political quandary. This blog first attempts to analyse the…

On January 3, a US drone strike near Baghdad Airport killed Major General Qaseem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force. In addition to Soleimani, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF’s), and four others including an airport protocol officer of PMF were also killed. Soleimani’s killing sent shockwaves across the…

BACKGROUND The claimant, “Enka”, was a sub-contractor of CJSC Energoproekt in the construction of the Berezovskaya power plant in Russia. The contract contained a dispute resolution clause (Clause 50.1), with three levels of dispute resolution. The third being a three-member tribunal arbitration seated in London, as per the ICC Rules of Arbitration, and to be…

Technologies have come to a point where such systems can be implemented within years (if not legally but practically). The instant introduction of automated technology and AI implies that in the near future, Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (hereinafter LAWS) can become a reality.  The stakes are high: LAWS, after gunpowder and nuclear weapons, would be…