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People waved rainbow flags and danced to celebrate the LGBTQ+ Pride in Romania's capital city Bucharest on Saturday. The march was attended by around 25,000 people, making it the biggest since the first pride parade took place in the country in 2005, according to ACCEPT NGO, one of the organisers. In May, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that EU member Romania, which does not allow same-sex marriage, was violating the rights of couples by refusing to recognise their unions. IMAGES
The European Commission has launched legal action against the conservative governments of EU members Hungary and Poland in response to measures seen as discriminating against LGBTQ citizens. SOUNDBITE
British Prime minister Boris Johnson announces that all legal requirements for wearing facemasks and social distancing are likely to end in England on July 19. SOUNDBITE N°9DY6TX
It's often said that bread is the 'staff of life.' And the Irish Supreme Court has determined what constitutes bread--and what doesn't. According to CNN, the court ruled Subway's hot sandwiches contain too much sugar to meet Ireland's legal definition for bread. The judgment was handed down on Tuesday in response to a Subway franchisee who had appealed for a tax refund. The bread supplied by Subway in its heated sandwiches has a sugar content of 10% of the weight of the flour included in the dough. Justice Donal O'Donnell Irish Supreme Court Under Ireland's Tax Act 1972, the sugar content should not exceed 2% of the weight of flour in the dough.
South Africa's top court rules that private and personal cannabis use should be legal in the climax of a case that has pitted officials against marijuana advocates and the judiciary. Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, delivering the Johannesburg-based Constitutional Court's unanimous verdict, said that the law banning marijuana use in private by adults "is unconstitutional and therefore invalid". IMAGES
According to Georgian law, underneath a woman's skirt is not a private place thus no need for consent to film up-skirt videos. Oh boy, mind the gap, the legal gap.