‘Online campaigners have already begun fighting Conservative plans to push ahead with the introduction of sweeping new surveillance powers in what has been dubbed the “Snoopers’ Charter”.’
The Independent, 10th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A new information platform has been set up to help local authorities improve the way they communicate on social media.’
OUT-LAW.com, 6th May 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The supreme court is to make recordings of past cases available online as a free video archive.’
The Guardian, 5th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘No action will be taken against a website supporting rapist Ched Evans following an inquiry into whether his victim was identified.’
BBC News, 30th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The UK government should create a new Copyright Act to address changes in technology, developments internationally and in the EU and a range of problems and issues that have arisen with existing UK copyright laws since they were introduced in 1988, a senior judge has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 29th April 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Under English law, information does not pass as property to a personal representative after the death of the deceased, (See Oxford v Moss [1979] 68 Cr App R 183; per Lord Upjohn in Boardman v Phipps [1967] 2 AC 46, at 127; and per Floyd LJ in Your Response Limited v Datateam Business Media Ltd [2015] QB 41, at paragraph [42]) but rights associated with the information can vest in the representative. Where the information is digital, it exists as electrical signals rather than as an integral part of a physical form such as the words printed on the paper of a book. Digital information can exist both locally, on computing devices that were owned and used by the deceased, and in a cloud, on computing devices that are connected to the internet and to which the deceased had been connected for the provision of digital and other services. It is no longer sufficient to deliver a computing device to the relevant beneficiary without investigating what digital information is stored on that device and whether the deceased stored any digital information in a cloud. In some cases, information stored on a local device can provide the only clue to the existence of cloudstored information.’
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New Square Chambers, March 2015
Source: www.newsquarechambers.co.uk
‘A gang of paedophiles who raped and abused babies, toddlers and children under five in attacks that were streamed over the internet have been described by police as committing some of the most “vile and depraved” offences they had ever seen.’
The Independent, 22nd April 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A “troubled” 16-year-old boy from Greater Manchester who ordered a deadly toxin from the dark web has walked free from court after claiming he tried to buy the poison to kill himself.’
The Guardian, 20th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The general election manifestos are in – here’s our quick-fire summary of their headline pledges on law and justice.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 20th April 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Ambulance-chasing law firms are using the European Court’s ruling on the “right to be forgotten” to drum up business, leading to a rise in the number of newspaper articles being deleted from Google search results.’
The Independent, 17th April 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A woman who stalked an anti-child abuse campaigner by “bombarding” her with Twitter messages has been given a restraining order for five years.’
BBC News, 18th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘UK copyright laws do not provide online content providers with freedom to retransmit TV programmes shown by UK public service broadcasters (PSBs) to fixed-line internet users who could otherwise watch the programmes on TV, the UK government has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th April 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Law firms, legal publishers, law societies and bar associations will be able to reserve web addresses using the new generic domain name .law for $200 (£135) a year, it has emerged.’
Legal Futures, 15th April 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Internet Watch Foundation report warns of increasing commercialisation of online child abuse images, with some even being traded for the digital ‘bitcoin’ currency ‘
Daily Telegraph, 14th April 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘An armed robber who boasted on Facebook about his plans to raid a supermarket has been jailed for four years.’
BBC News, 10th April 2015,
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Thousands more new car owners are being hit with fines and having their cars clamped and towed away since major changes were made to the tax disc system.’
The Independent, 13th April 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A claim for misuse of private information should be categorised as a tort for the purposes of service of proceedings out of the jurisdiction.’
WLR Daily, 18th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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