Google faces $440m privacy judgment over unlawful 'Paused' app tracking as class counsel files for fees - ITREALMS

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Tech giant Google is currently battling to overturn a massive legal judgment in the United States after a federal jury found the company unlawfully tracked users who had explicitly deactivated their activity tracking, reports ITREALMS.

The class-action lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California under the case name Rodriguez v. Google, culminated in a landmark verdict where the jury awarded more than $425 million in damages to two certified classes of mobile device users. 

INEC: From transmission to automated manual transmission - ITREALMS

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Since February 2022 when the new Electoral Act was signed into law, one viral ‘song’ by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its officials was allusions to transmitting the 2023 election results electronically, which now has become a subject of judiciary interpretations, writes REMMY NWEKE.

Trending transmission:
Remember the trending video of the then Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris tagged 'Transmission, transmission' where he was seen obviously struggling embarrassingly to read a speech with over 20 'transmission transmission' saga in 2018.

Experts fault Ogala, TPLT explanation on controversial judgment document - ITREALMS

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Experts in documentation and Word Processing applications, have faulted the explanation of the Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT) over purported 'water-mark' in the copies of controversial judgment of the Court of Appeal in respect of the Presidential Election Petition judgment delivered on September 6, reports ITREALMS.

According to experts who spoke to ITREALMS on anonymous, they faulted the explanation offered by the Coordinator of TPLT, Babatunde Ogala, SAN, saying that what actually appeared on the document is a 'header' used in identifying document from bulk of others in a database.

Bayelsa polls: Fear grips APC over Appeal Court judgment - ITREALMS

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa reportedly went into panic mode following last Friday's proceeding at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal in the case concerning Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, reports ITREALMS.

Degi-Eremienyo who is the Deputy Governor-Elect was disqualified few days to the November 16 Governorship Election for presenting false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and lying under oath.

When the matter came up, the legal team of the PDP argued that the admission by Senator Degi that there were mistakes in his educational qualification holds no water as he had ample time to write to the institutions involved to effect the necessary corrections.

According to them, the provisions of Sections 186 and 187 of the 1999 Constitution which provides for the office of Deputy Governor of a State and further provides that in the absence of a Deputy Governorship candidate the nomination of a Governorship candidate becomes invalid is what the Court of Appeal is invited to apply in the case.

After the cross fire by counsel to both parties, the court adjourned the case and reserved the matter for judgement, with the date to be duly communicated.

In the trial Court, Sir Friday Nwosu had stated that it is only a woman who has been married and divorced multiple times that should have such discrepancies in her certificate and not a man.

The APC had hurriedly obtained a Stay of Execution which compelled INEC to include them in the ballot for the November 16th Governorship Election.

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Why UK court dismissed Ogoni suit judgment over Shell - ITREALMS

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A court in the United Kingdom has given reasons for rejection of the application by some leaders of Ejamah Ebubu community in Ogoniland to register the judgement of a Nigerian Federal High Court in the country for enforcement, reports ITREALMS.

Claimants had applied to register the judgement to enforce a N183 billion judgment sum, which was the judgement sum and the interest over the spill incident in the community in or about 1969, a spill Shell Petroleum Development Company said arose from third party activities during the Nigerian civil war.

The company also said the spill site had since been remediated.

The claimants recalculated the High Court judgement of N17 billion plus interest to be N183 billion as at January 2019, but admitted to the UK court that the sum was overstated.
The claimants also obtained an order of a Nigerian court to seize and sell the assets of SPDC to satisfy the said judgment, while the matter is still the subject of several proceedings, including pending appeals at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

In the judgement, on Thursday, a copy of which was obtained by ITREALMS, the UK court declined the request for registration of the Nigerian court judgment after finding that SPDC suffered a serious breach of natural justice “through being prevented from presenting its defence to the claim” in Nigeria.

The court also the claimants overstated the judgement sum.

Reacting to the ruling, spokesperson for Shell Nigeria, Bamidele Odugbesan, said: “This spill was caused by third parties during the Nigerian Civil War, a challenging period which resulted in significant damage to oil and gas infrastructure in the region. While SPDC does not accept responsibility for these spills, the affected sites in the Ebubu community were fully remediated.

“We are pleased that the English court has rejected the registration of this judgement for enforcement in the UK. This matter is still the subject of several proceedings in the Nigerian Courts, including pending appeals at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, and it remains our position that no payment is due. It is regrettable that the legal process in this case has focused for so long on procedural issues and not the merits of the case when we have always maintained that we are ready to defend this case based on the available facts.”


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Oyo appeal: Judges fail to make copy of judgment available - ITREALMS

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Forty-Eight hours after the Appeal Court Panel sitting on Oyo State Governorship Election Petition gave its judgment, the copy of the judgment has not been made available to lawyers of the Governor of Oyo State, Mr. Seyi Makinde, ITREALMS reliably gathered.

Informed sources close to the judiciary in Ibadan told our Correspondent that the Lead Counsel to Governor Seyi Makinde on the election petition matter, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, has been left frustrated on the matter.

It was gathered that though Jegede instituted the process to secure the copy of the judgment immediately after the ruling, the Appeal Court has not made it available to the Counsel.

It was gathered that the staff of the Court of Appeal have told the lawyers that the Judges were trying to correct some errors in the judgment to prevent the errors from being made public.

“As of now, the copy of the judgment has not been made available and this could be dangerous. I can authoritatively inform you that Makinde’s lawyer initiated the process to get the judgment but he was frustrated. This is another reason for interested parties not to go to sleep, as something may be amiss,” the source said.

The source further said that the delay in releasing the court ruling may be dangerous because the Supreme Court has 60 days to determine the matter from the date of the ruling of the Court of Appeal.

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