“Lord Sugar was forced to remove a Twitter message during one of the parliamentary expenses trials earlier this year, which speculated that a peer would be cleared because he was a Tory, it was revealed on Thursday.”
The Guardian, 26th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Twitter will notify its users before handing their personal information to UK authorities seeking to prosecute them over alleged breaches of privacy injunctions, a senior executive at the company said on Thursday.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Website operators have a year to change the way they use cookies to comply with new laws, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said. Those that make no effort to change could still face sanctions, though, the ICO said.”
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OUT-LAW.com, 25th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“During the row over privacy injunctions, critics have emphasised that it is near impossible to stop people revealing information on Twitter. But what if people use it to name victims in rape cases or reveal information from court that could see trials abandoned?”
BBC News, 25th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The present furore over superinjunctions is one in the eye for some London firms of celebrity lawyers, who have made large sums out of their new tools of ‘reputation management’.”
The Guardian, 24th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A wealthy British financier is seeking to have his sister-in-law secretly jailed in a libel case, in the latest escalation of the controversy over superinjunctions and the internet, the Guardian can disclose.”
The Guardian, 24th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A recent panel event shows legal blogging is growing to fill the gap left by newspapers.”
The Guardian, 23rd May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Twitter’s decision to open a UK office could leave it more vulnerable to prosecution over what its users write.”
BBC News, 23rd May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The High Court has rejected a third attempt to lift an injunction preventing journalists from naming a married footballer who is alleged to have had an extra-marital affair with Imogen Thomas, a former reality television contestant.”
The Guardian, 23rd May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“David Cameron has suggested that the UK’s current law on privacy is ‘unsustainable’ and needs to ‘catch up’ with the advent of social media, which has left the press at a disadvantage.”
The Guardian, 23rd May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The first modern battle for commonsense press freedoms was fought and won over three decades ago as Margaret Thatcher and massed ranks of lawyers toiled to suppress Spycatcher and its revelations about MI5’s lurid history.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The attempt to use super-injunctions to gag the media in the internet age reached new levels of absurdity yesterday.”
The Independent, 23rd May 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Judges face a furious backlash from MPs who have demanded a parliamentary debate over the widespread use of superinjunctions.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Mr Justice Tugendhat insisted anyone who uses the internet to breach a court order still leaves themselves open to a claim for damages.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Sexually explicit videos available on-demand on pornographic websites is ‘television-like’ content and is subject to UK video on demand regulations, Ofcom has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“In November 2010 the Prime Minister David Cameron announced an independent review of how the Intellectual Property framework supports growth and innovation. Chaired by Professor Ian Hargreaves and assisted by a panel of experts, the review reported to Government in May 2011. The Review makes 10 recommendations designed to ensure that the UK has an IP framework best suited to supporting innovation and promoting economic growth in the digital age.”
Intellectual Property Office, 18th May 2011
Source: www.ipo.gov.uk
“The Government has asked for industry’s input on new communication laws that could come into effect as early as 2015. It has opened a review into the regulation of the communications industry in the UK.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH v Merckle GmbH (Case C-316/09); [2011] WLR (D) 159
“The dissemination on a website by a pharmaceutical undertaking of information relating to medicinal products available on medical prescription only, which consisted in the reproduction of the packaging, and in the literal and complete reproduction of the package leaflet or summary of the product’s characteristics, was not contrary to article 88(1)(a) of Parliament and Council Directive 2001/83/EC, as amended, prohibiting advertising to the general public of medicinal products available on medical prescription only. The dissemination of such information which had been rewritten by the manufacturer and which could only be explained by an advertising purpose was prohibited.”
WLR Daily, 5th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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