Soudní novinky 15-37 (byznys, byznys)

Minulý týden se na soudní svět valily zajímavé zprávy o sporech mezi obchodními společnostmi a lidskoprávními požadavky.

• Potenciálně velký případ: Supreme Court of Canada rules Ecuador villagers can go ahead with US$9.5-billion legal case against Chevron. "In Friday’s ruling, the court flatly rejected Chevron’s arguments. “[T]he approach favoured by Chevron is sound neither in law nor in policy,” Justice Gascon wrote." Na první pohled to vypadá pro Chevron bledě, ale je nutno zdůraznit, že se jednalo "pouze" o procesní spor, o meritu se bude teprve rozhodovat.
• Zajímavá věc ze Španělska, kde už má protibyznysová mobilizace nějakou tradici: Dispute at Coke Bottling Plant Could Signal Labor Challenges for E.U.. "The dispute at this factory dates from January 2014, when Coca-Cola Iberian announced it would close four of its 11 Spanish factories, including Fuenlabrada. The company said the plants were operating at about half of production capacity. The original plan called for the company to lay off 1,190 of its nearly 4,600 workers in Spain. After street protests and strikes, the company said it would reduce the job cuts to 840 workers. Unions nonetheless took the company to court — and won. In June 2014, Spain’s national court found that the company had not adequately informed workers of its layoff plans and had illegally circumvented their right to strike by using alternative production and distribution channels. The company appealed to the Spanish Supreme Court, losing again. In April, the Supreme Court ordered Coca-Cola Iberian to rehire any employee who did not accept the company’s layoff package, worth an average 135,000 euros per dismissed worker, according to the Spanish bottler. About 300 workers, including the 220 holdouts in Fuenlabrada, are now hoping that the lower Spanish national court will grant them the right not only to resume work, but also to return to the same jobs that they previously held — namely, bottling Coke and the company’s other beverages. Legal experts said that it would be unprecedented for a court to force a company to produce a specific product against its will. But the Coca-Cola brand name is being “used as a symbol” by disgruntled workers as part of their broader fight against multinational capitalism, according to Román Gil Alburquerque, another partner at the Sagardoy law firm."
• Delhi High Court allows full term service and pension benefits to women in Indian Navy.
• V Turecku se soudy nebojí rozdávání zajímavých trestů. Policista, který slzným sprejem bez varování rozháněl protestní shromáždění, nepůjde do vězení, ale musí zasadit 600 stromů a půl roku se o ně starat. 
• Opravdu čtivý a zajímavý textík: Nazi Criminals Were Given Rorschach Tests at Nuremberg. 
• Tohle vypadá na důležitý rozsudek  SDEU: Final courts’ obligations to refer questions: the CJEU clarifies CILFIT a zde pro změnu na to samé téma u ESLP (Schipani v. Italy).
• A ukončeme to naštvaným byznysem: Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules ("Time spent travelling to and from first and last appointments by workers without a fixed office should be regarded as working time, the European Court of Justice has ruled.")