‘Service providers that help other businesses to pool information from different payment accounts on behalf of customers will not be subject to regulation under new UK payment services laws if they do not deliver the aggregated data to the customer themselves, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th September 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Social media trolls could be banned from voting under tough new measures outlined by the elections watchdog to crackdown on the abuse of politicians.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th September 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘This was a claim for trade mark infringement and passing off and an application for the cancellation of CORETX as a UK trade mark. The action was brought by Coreix Ltd. (“Coreix”) which was the registered proprietor of the word mark COREIX. The defendants are members of a group of companies that include the word CORETX in their corporate names, have registered CORETX sign as a word mark and supply ICT services under that mark as well as a device mark that includes the word CORETX.’
NIPC Law, 11th September 2017
Source: nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
‘Claims that G4S gave inaccurate financial information about the running of two immigration centres are being investigated, the Home Office has said.’
BBC News, 19th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A fashion designer who duped investors into buying fake tickets to the Oscars, telling one couple they would sit on Julia Roberts’ table, has been jailed.’
BBC News, 19th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Women who were deceived into sexual relationships with undercover police officers have called for an urgent meeting with the home secretary over fears the official public inquiry lacks openness and fails to recognise claims of institutional sexism within the Metropolitan police.’
The Guardian, 19th September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A software tool can qualify for a VAT exemption, the UK’s First Tier Tribunal has ruled, rejecting arguments from HMRC that the provision of IT tools cannot benefit from an exemption in the EU VAT Directive.’
OUT-LAW.com, 18th September 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A Family Court judge has questioned the spending of money on the issuing of legal proceedings and on psychological evidence when this expenditure is incurred before attempts have been made at therapeutic support, in a case where a vulnerable mother was faced with the loss of a second child to adoption.’
Local Government Lawyer, 18th September 2017
Source: localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Camden Council has successfully appealed to the Upper Tribunal against a leading estate agency, Foxtons, using the term “administration fees” in their lettings agency work.’
Local Government Lawyer, 18th September 2017
Source: localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court is set to provide guidance on whether a costs judge who reduces the hourly rates for incurred costs should then do the same to budgeted costs.’
Litigation Futures, 19th September 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is to start hosting digital family court bundles centrally next year as part of its project to digitise the courts, it has emerged in a briefing sent to family judges.’
Legal Futures, 19th September 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Two men have been jailed today (18 September) after running an operation to sell illegal guns and ammunition to criminals.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 18th September 2017
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘A man who posed as a Justin Bieber lookalike online to lure schoolgirls into sending him indecent images has been jailed for 15 years.’
BBC News, 18th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Six members of a “professionally organised criminal organisation” who profited from human trafficking have been jailed.’
BBC News, 18th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Pawel Zietowski jailed for eight months after driving at up to 117mph and practising “hair-raising” stunts on motorway.’
The Guardian, 18th September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A woman collapsed in court after a judge ruled that her ex-boyfriend had not promised to marry her and she did not have a claim for a half-share of his business. After Judge Alan Johns QC ruled against Gillian Turner, fell onto the desk in front of her and was given first aid treatment from court staff.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A group of estate agents who secretly conspired to keep their fees high to make “as much profit as possible” have been fined £370,000 for operating an illegal cartel.’
The Guardian, 18th September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A pensioner has admitted shooting dead a burglar he caught breaking into his caravan home in the middle of the night with his illegally-kept double-barrelled shotgun.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A couple who disguised a house as a garage and lived in it for four years have been ordered to tear it down.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th September 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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