Friday 16 December 2016
by
Suzanne Zhou
On 30 November 2016, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales upheld the High Court of Justice of England and Wales’s judgment on the United Kingdom’s standardised (plain) tobacco packaging, dismissing an appeal brought by three tobacco companies and four tipping paper manufacturers.
Read more >: Court of Appeal upholds UK plain packaging judgment
Friday 19 August 2016
by
Suzanne Zhou
Wednesday 29 June 2016
by
Jonathan Liberman
Monday 11 April 2016
by
Jonathan Liberman
Next week, high-level representatives of governments will assemble at UN Headquarters in New York for the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem. In this guest post for ehospice's series on access to medications and UNGASS, Jonathan Liberman explains why the 2016 UNGASS could galvanise efforts to provide pain relief, palliative care and protection of dignity to millions of people around the world.
Read more >: Why the 2016 UNGASS will be critical to global pain relief and palliative care
Friday 12 February 2016
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Suzanne Zhou
Wednesday 6 May 2015
by
Jonathan Liberman
Jonathan Liberman, Director of the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, outlines the research findings but says the fight against tobacco companies is far from over - for Australia still but also for other countries, particularly those who are less resourced but vulnerable to the social and health costs of tobacco in coming decades.
Read more >: Fight for plain truth far from over
Tuesday 11 November 2014
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Alexandra Jones and Ebil Matsutaro
Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) bear the heaviest burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) globally, but there are promising signs that the region is also beginning to develop specific, multi-sectoral responses.
Read more >: Promise of Progress in the Pacific
Wednesday 8 October 2014
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Suzanne Zhou
The relationship between health and trade is an increasingly prominent item on the global noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) agenda. Although adopted in the context of access to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria medicines, the Doha Declaration covers public health concerns more broadly. The Doha Declaration also applies to NCD prevention measures concerning intellectual property such as certain tobacco control laws.
Read more >: The Doha Declaration: for prevention as well as cure
Wednesday 20 August 2014
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Alexandra Jones
Adoption of the Political Declaration on Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases in 2011 represented landmark acknowledgement of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as a major challenge for development in the 21st Century. Nearly three years later, outcomes of a recent United Nations review highlight the critical need to match ongoing global political commitment with strengthened capacity, including legal capacity, in accelerating a ‘whole-of-government’ and ‘whole-of-society’ response.
Read more >: Building legal capacity into an accelerated global NCD response
Wednesday 6 August 2014
by
Jonathan Liberman
Thursday 22 May 2014
by
Jonathan Liberman
Tuesday 20 May 2014
by
Mark Davison, Jonathan Liberman, and Andrew Mitchell
Last week, McCabe Centre Director Jonathan Liberman and Professors Mark Davison and Andrew Mitchell appeared before the Health Committee of the New Zealand Parliament, which is examining a Bill that would require tobacco products in New Zealand to be sold in plain packaging. They set out why they believe the Bill would not breach New Zealand’s obligations under WTO or international investment law. In this blog, they address some of the claims made by the tobacco industry in its submissions to the Committee.
Read more >: Responding to the tobacco industry’s claims that plain packaging breaches international trade and investment law
Wednesday 26 March 2014
by
Ebil Matsutaro
As a participant in the McCabe Centre Intensive Legal Training Programme during February and March, I learned about important and pressing issues related to tobacco control, alcohol control, obesity, treatment and support for cancer, access to medicines, global action on NCDs, and international trade and investment.
Read more >: Eating the Elephant in the Room
Wednesday 30 October 2013
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Alexandra Jones and Laura Perriam
Monday 14 October 2013
by
Jonathan Liberman
Simon Lacey, a Jakarta-based international trade-law practitioner, writes in the Jakarta Globe that he advised Indonesia to challenge Australia's plain packaging legislation in the WTO because it would be a good opportunity to build Indonesia's WTO dispute settlement experience - particularly because the tobacco industry would be footing the bill. We comment on Lacey's perspective and on his judgment that Australia's plain packaging is ‘almost certainly ... an act of regulatory over-reach' and ‘a silly political calculation'.
Read more >: WTO dispute settlement as a training exercise?