Domestic and regional courts

In a significant legal victory for public health, Mexico's Fourth Collegiate Court in Administrative Matters of the First Circuit has upheld the dismissal of an amparo challenge to the Decree Amending, Adding, and Repealing Several Provisions of the Regulation of the General Law for Tobacco Control.

Contributed by: Ana María Palacio Valencia (PhD), International Legal Consultant   On 5 March 2020, Panama’s Supreme Court dismissed a constitutional action (Constitutional Amparo) brought against

Contributed by: Ana María Palacio Valencia (PhD), International Legal Consultant El 5 de marzo de 2020 la Corte Suprema de Panamá negó una acción constitucional de

On 26 June 2020, the High Court of South Africa rejected an application lodged by the Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA) against the government’s regulations prohibiting

The McCabe Centre for Law &; Cancer has collaborated with our WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub colleagues at the University of Cape Town&;s Research Unit on the

The Kenyan Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal brought by British American Tobacco (BAT), thereby ending the company’s challenge to Kenya’s Tobacco Control Regulations. The Supreme

On 28 May 2019, a five-judge bench of the Constitutional Court of Uganda unanimously rejected a legal challenge brought by British American Tobacco (BAT) against the

On 17 February 2017, the Court of Appeal of Kenya at Nairobi upheld the High Court of Kenya’s dismissal of a legal challenge brought by British

UPDATE: On 12 April 2017, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom declined to hear an appeal from the Court of Appeal judgment. The Court of Appeal

On 19 May 2016, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales handed down its decision dismissing the legal challenges to the United Kingdom’s tobacco standardized