Litigation and case law

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.

The Philippine government has celebrated an important win over the tobacco industry in a decision ten years in the making.

When the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body ruled in favour of Australia’s world-first tobacco plain packaging laws last June, it ended a decade-long legal battle

On 9 June 2020, the WTO Appellate Body ended almost a decade of litigation against Australia’s tobacco plain packaging laws with a comprehensive victory in favour

Davi Bressler, an alumnus of the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer (the Knowledge Hub on Legal Challenges)'s International Legal Training Program, is part of the

The Knowledge Hub on Legal Challenges recently took part in the World Conference on Tobacco or Health Leadership Summit’s webinar titled ‘Plain packaging – Lessons for

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

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

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

In this edition, we shine a spotlight on Dr Nor Aryana Hassan and Dr Nazlinda Abu Jazid Javis: two doctors in the NCD division of Malaysia’s Ministry of Health

The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body ended a decade of litigation on 9 June when it dismissed the last remaining legal challenge to Australia’s tobacco

The last remaining challenge to Australia’s tobacco plain packaging laws was dismissed on 9 June 2020. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body (AB) found that