“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has urged the Committee considering the draft Communications Data Bill to recommend protection for legal communications before any new interception powers are granted.”
The Bar Council, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Members of the public have a final chance to have their say on plans to store all their web browsing and social media data for 12 months.”
BBC News, 23rd August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Supreme Court
SerVaas Incorporated v Rafidian Bank & Ors [2012] UKSC 40 (17 August 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Davis & Anor v West Sussex County Council [2012] EWHC 2152 (QB) (22 August 2012)
Jones v Link Financial Ltd [2012] EWHC 2402 (QB) (22 August 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Hughes v Weiss Re Iuvus Ltd [2012] EWHC 2363 (Ch) (15 August 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The royal family moved to block the British publication of grainy mobile phone pictures of Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas hotel room after the images were widely circulated online.”
The Guardian, 23rd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The two men jailed for the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence have lost the first round of their attempt to challenge their convictions at the Court of Appeal.”
The Independent, 23rd August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“One of the possibilities being considered by Lord Justice Leveson as he writes the Report for Part 1 of his Inquiry is whether there should be compulsory regulation of the print media. One, widely discussed possibility is a statutory framework which would require any publisher with turnover or readership above a set threshold to join a ‘regulatory body’: compulsory regulation for large publishers.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Tribunal rulings against academies excluding special educational needs pupils must be backed up by changes to the law.”
The Guardian, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Supermarkets and internet firms could be forced to release sensitive personal information that they hold about customers, ministers have said.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“New guidance on the legal definition of waste and its application will provide a practical guide to businesses new to the legal definition, the Government said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Richard Desmond, the owner of the Daily Express, hailed a victory for his Health Lottery after Camelot, the National Lottery operator, failed in a bid to close it down.”
The Independent, 23rd August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Killing ‘pests’ such as badgers, deer and grey squirrels will be made easier under Government proposals.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who abused a Tory MP in a crude email after the politician was headbutted by a rival at Westminster was fined £110 and ordered to pay £100 costs yesterday. Nicholas Scales told MP Stuart Andrew to ‘stop wasting police time and get your fucking job done’, Leeds magistrates court heard.”
The Guardian, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Manchester postman has been jailed for nine months after admitting stealing 70,000 items of post.”
BBC News, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The law is clear, but still misunderstandings abound. Jenni Murray talks to Alison Saunders, head of the Crown Prosecution Service in London, and Lisa Longstaff, Project Coordinator of Women Against Rape.”
BBC Radio 4, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The police watchdog has found there was a ‘failure of systems’ in Essex police’s handling of a man who murdered his former partner and their two-year-old daughter, criticising a lack of adequate training, insufficient resources for domestic violence cases and ‘poor oversight’, in a report released on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Disputes about subject access requests under section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 only rarely make their way to the Higher Courts. The leading – and often bedevilling – case of Durant is, for example, now 9 years old. Given this scarcity of precedent from the High Court and Court of Appeal, up-to-date illustrations of the judiciary’s approach to the DPA are most usefully sought in County Court judgments – see for example Panopticon’s post on the case of Elliot v Lloyds TSB Bank from earlier this year.”
Panopticon, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“A man has been jailed after leaving two Jack Russell dogs to fend for themselves for more than a month, resulting in one starving to death and the other surviving by eating its remains, the RSPCA said.”
The Independent, 21st August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Last night on the BBC’s Newsnight, Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, named one of the women whose evidence has led Swedish prosecutors to seek the extradition of Julian Assange.”
Head of Legal, 21st August 2012
Source: www.headoflegal.com
“A man has been found guilty of encouraging disorder in Coventry during last summer’s riots across England.”
BBC News, 21st August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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