‘International law should be applied to cyberspace to make it clear when a nation state has acted unlawfully and what action can be legally taken in response to a cyberattack, the Attorney General will say.’
The Independent, 19th May 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘More than a third of revenge porn cases are dropped by victims despite a suspect being identified, figures show.’
The Independent, 16th May 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A criminal who wrote “catch me if you can” under his own wanted appeal on Facebook has been jailed for eight years.’
The Independent, 13th May 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A paedophile has been jailed for 10 years after using social media to groom children.’
The Guardian, 10th May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Details of disciplinary and other regulatory action taken by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) could be published for longer than the current three years to combat misinformation online, it said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 11th May 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A new tech watchdog will be given the power to impose multibillion-pound fines on major firms such as Google and Facebook if they breach rules designed to protect consumers and businesses.’
The Guardian, 5th May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘There is broad consensus that a greater degree of regulation of online content is necessary, but the aims of the proposed new Online Safety Bill in the UK could be undermined by a lack of clarity over the way the legislation is to be implemented and enforced.’
OUT-LAW.com, 28th April 2022
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, has spoken at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference in York. His lecture was entitled: “The proper place of the law in a digital society”.’
Courts & Tribunals Judiciary, 28th April 2022
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘A Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism officer has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for arranging to a meet a 13-year-old girl for sex when he was “on duty working from home”.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2022
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Doctors who share “misleading” information on social media could face regulatory action, according to planned new guidelines.’
The Guardian, 26th April 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Children as young as between three and six years old are becoming the latest victims in a growing trend of self-generated child sexual abuse, a report from an internet safety watchdog has said.’
The Guardian, 26th April 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A football coach who sexually abused boys after grooming them through online gaming and relentless messages has been jailed for 15 years and 10 months.’
BBC News, 23rd April 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Businesses that breach UK consumer protection laws will be subject to fines of up to 10% of their annual global turnover under changes to legislation the UK government has committed to making.’
OUT-LAW.com, 21st April 2022
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Counter-terrorism measures in the government’s Online Safety Bill could be “muzzled and confused”, a watchdog has said.’
The Independent, 20th April 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Fake reviews are to be outlawed and consumers will have more chances to get out of subscriptions they do not want under a package of measures proposed by the UK government to stop people being ripped off online.’
The Guardian, 20th April 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A new official route for the online publication of court judgments marks “a vital step towards better transparency” in the justice system, the government said today. As the Gazette revealed last year, the new service from the National Archives, called Find Case Law, presents judgments formatted to ease analysis by computer. For the first time, judgments are published under a clear copyright licence permitting such use.’
Law Society's Gazette, 19th April 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A young adult with a lifelong serious mental illness should not be prevented from visiting a man in Brazil suspected of grooming her, but should very carefully consider the wisdom of doing so, a Deputy High Court judge has said.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th April 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A woman who was gang-raped by men claiming to be Welsh rugby players has sued the police for naming her online.’
BBC News, 7th April 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An NHS consultant anaesthetist who was caught by police while arranging to sexually abuse a seven-year-old girl has been jailed for 28 months.’
BBC News, 2nd April 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A teenager has been jailed for six weeks for racially abusing Marcus Rashford on Twitter after the Euro 2020 final, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.’
The Guardian, 30th March 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
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