Monsanto Roundup Lawsuit | March 2024 Update

In this post, our Roundup lawyers will give you: an update on where things stand in the Roundup class action lawsuit in December 2023 (including updates from the last four trials, including the new $1.5 billion verdict on November 20, 2023, and the latest $2.25 billion verdict in Philadelphia on January 26, 2024).  the likely direction the Roundup litigation will likely take moving forward and the expected future settlement amounts in the Bayer Roundup lawsuit (Phase 2) 54,000 Roundup Cases Left… and Counting As of March 2024, Monsanto has reached settlement agreements in nearly 100,000 Roundup lawsuits. Monsanto paid approximately…

Update law on computer evidence to avoid Horizon repeat, ministers urged | Post Office Horizon scandal

Ministers need to “immediately” update the law to recognize that computers are fallible or risk a repeat of the Horizon scandal, legal experts say.In English and Welsh law, computers are assumed to be “reliable” unless proven otherwise. But critics of this approach say this reverses the burden of proof normally applied in criminal cases.Stephen Mason, a barrister and expert on electronic evidence, said: “It says, for the person who's saying 'there's something wrong with this computer', that they have to prove it. Even if it's the person accusing them who has the information.”Mason, along with eight other legal and computer…