Day: August 17, 2022

On 10 August, the Transnational Litigation Blog published this post which explained that, under the doctrine of forum non conveniens, a judge may dismiss a case on the understanding that the case would be better heard in another sovereign’s court.  The post describes the current federal doctrine of forum non conveniens; the variety of US state court doctrines; and the history of the doctrine within the US, including its traditional limitation to cases involving no local parties.  It notes that, despite its fancy-sounding Latin name, it is a relatively modern phenomenon in US courts.

https://tlblog.org/a-primer-on-forum-non-conveniens

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On 17 August, iGB reported that the Gambling Commission had ordered Entain to pay a record £17 million after it identified a series of social responsibility and AML failings across its online and land-based businesses. The failings relate to LC International Limited (LCI), which runs Entain’s online brands including Ladbrokes.com, Coral.co.uk and Foxybingo.com, and Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming Limited (LBG) land-based business, which operates 2,746 betting shops across Great Britain.  In a separate article, iGB reported that the Gambling Commission chief executive said Entain could potentially lose its licence in Great Britain if the group continues to breach rules and regulations in the market.

https://igamingbusiness.com/legal-compliance/entain-to-pay-record-17m

https://igamingbusiness.com/legal-compliance/entain-risks-losing-licence-over-further-breaches-says-rhodes/

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One of 2 publications from SIPRI on 17 August, this is concerned with post-shipment on-site inspections and international assistance in physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) of exported material.  On-site inspections allow exporting states to check exported military materiel to ensure that the importer is complying with its commitments, while PSSM assistance aims to improve states’ weapons and ammunition management systems. However, both instruments allow foreign specialists to visit a state’s weapons and ammunition storage facilities and enable information gathering to assess their integrity and identify possible diversion risks.  The Policy Brief highlights how building informal linkages between these instruments could contribute towards establishing more comprehensive forms of post-shipment cooperation.

https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/pb_2208_post-shipment_on-site_inspections_and_stockpile_management_assistance.pdf

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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has issued a new guide, saying that, to prevent the diversion of exported military materiel, an increasing number of states have conducted post-shipment on-site inspections (i.e. physical inspections of exported military materiel on the territory of the importing state) or have introduced measures to allow for them to take place.  The Good Practice Guide is aimed at states that are in the process of developing post-shipment on-site inspections or are considering their future adoption. 

https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/sipri_2208_gpg_on-site_inspections.pdf

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