The Higher Court in Podgorica ruled to increase the damages awarded to Softić by the Basic Court of Podgorica, from 7,000 EUR to 12,000 EUR for failing to perform an effective and adequate investigation into the attacks on the journalist but rejected the remaining 88,000 EUR request as “baseless.”
The High Court of Kenya at Nairobi overturned a ban imposed by the Kenya Film Classification Board on filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu's film 'Rafiki' about homosexuality, which is prohibited in Kenya.
The Supreme Court of India set aside the decision of the Delhi High Court which had restrained the screening of the movie “Bandit Queen, holding that the screening of a film cannot be prohibited merely because it depicts obscene and graphic events.
The Court of Appeal for Ontario dismissed an action initiated by a property development company against a not-for-profit organization for testifying about the potential environmental damage of a proposed project, finding it to be a Strategic Lawsuit to Prevent Public Participation (SLAPP) which are lawsuits brought to silence or financially punish one’s critics.
The Employment Tribunals (Scotland) held a Scottish National Party (SNP) councilor’s belief in Scottish independence amounted to a “philosophical belief” and was, therefore, a protected characteristic for the purposes of claiming direct discrimination under equality law.
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