South Korea's state health insurer, the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), is in the process of a compensation suit against tobacco industry. The tobacco companies have habitually endeavored to ensure favorable outcomes in litigation by misusing scientific evidence or recruiting scientists to support its interests. This study analyzed strategies that tobacco companies have used during th...

Litigation holds are inevitable parts of modern civil lawsuits that mandate an organization to preserve all forms of documents related to a lawsuit. In current data storage models, this includes documents stored in clouds. However, due to the fundamental natures of today's clouds, incorporating a trustworthy litigation hold management system is very challenging. To make the situation more compl...

BACKGROUND In medical malpractice litigations in recent years in Japan, it is notable that the growing number of medical litigation cases includes the issue of a doctor's explanation to the patient as a pivotal point. The objective of this study was to identify factors of physicians' communication skills with patients, as related to their legal liability, and differences in doctors' communicati...

Since the legislation of the China’s 1991Civil Procedure Law (CPL), which explicitly permits three types of collective actions, multi-plaintiff groups have brought suits seeking compensation. With the high tempo in economy and the social reform, disputes related to collective parties arise rapidly, class rushes to China’s courtrooms. The increasing number of collective actions is one of the rem...

This article conceptualises the term “strategic litigation” in order to provide for a definition of it. Strategic litigation is tool increasingly used Europe by individuals and organisations attain different objectives. Next that, there increasing academic attention topic. Nevertheless, exact remains unclear. Therefore, this uses research method conceptualisation as well database additional lit...