“The UK’s primary regulator of competition issues has approved Facebook’s proposal to buy photo-sharing company Instagram.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Judges and magistrates have been banned from blogging about their jobs. This is not helpful.”
The Guardian, 14th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 38-year-old Briton who made £35,000 a month through a website that linked to pirated copies of films and TV shows has been sentenced to four years in prison.”
The Guardian, 14th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“As their papers go weekly or move online, court reporters are embracing Twitter.”
The Guardian, 14th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Debates in parliament, home visits from the police and distressed celebrities all seem a little unclear as to what is and what is not acceptable by law on Twitter. The list of those offending and those offended keeps growing with recent high profile reports referring to Louise Mensch, Tom Daley, Guy Adams, Steve Dorkland, Helen Skelton and Kevin Pietersen. This guide discusses 10 legal risks which apply, or potentially apply, to Twitter, in the context of recent media attention given to the lawfulness of tweets.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A health body has been handed a six-figure penalty after publishing sensitive personal details of more than 1,000 NHS staff on the internet.”
The Independent, 6th August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The body representing Britain’s chief police officers has rejected calls for new laws to govern how the police deal with the abuse of Twitter, saying that problems may eventually be resolved by the microblogging website itself.”
The Guardian, 4th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A cloud computing provider that ran a promotion stating users could store an ‘unlimited’ amount of data made exaggerated claims that were not suitably qualified or substantiated and were likely to mislead consumers, the UK’s advertising watchdog has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Media companies that provide video-on-demand (VOD) services are responsible for ensuring compliance with VOD advertising rules when advertising appears as a direct result of a user choosing to view VOD programmes, the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Chambers v Director of Public Prosecutions [2012] EWHC 2157 (Admin); [2012] WLR (D) 234
“A message which did not create fear or apprehension in those to whom it was communicated, or who may reasonably have been expected to see it, was not of a ‘menacing character’ within the meaning section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003. That provision created an offence of basic intent and, accordingly, the mental element of the offence was satisfied if the accused were proved to have intended that the message should have been of menacing character or alternatively, to have been aware of or to have recognised the risk at the time of sending the message that it might have created fear or apprehension in any reasonable member of the public who had read or seen it. Moreover, a ‘tweet’ sent via the social networking site Twitter, was ‘a message’ sent by an electronic communications service for the purposes of section 127(1) of the 2003 Act regardless of whether the tweet was read as a ‘message’ or as content on the website.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The arrest of a teenager by police investigating abuse of Olympic diving star Tom Daley on Twitter has led to calls for a new initiative educating the public about the ease with which a tweet can end with a jail sentence.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Twitter users have to understand that every tweet is a broadcast – even if it’s prefaced with an @.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The judgment in the #twitterJoketrial is an important one for Paul Chambers who has been acquitted and can now get on with his life without the stain of criminal conviction hanging over his head.”
Charon QC, 28th July 2012
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“The Legal Services Commission (LSC) are developing a new online system (the Client and Cost Management System – CCMS).”
The Bar Council, 27th July 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“People will be able to use a simpler and quicker system to apply for their loved ones to legally manage their affairs under Government plans put out for consultation today.”
Ministry of Justice, 27th July 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The famous ‘Twitter joke’ conviction of Paul Chambers has been overturned on appeal, bringing welcome clarity to what is and what is not an offence of this type. On discovering a week before he was due to take a flight that the airport was closed due to adverse weather conditions, he tweeted that ‘I am blowing the airport sky high!!’ unless the situation was resolved by the time of his flight. He was convicted of sending a message of a ‘menacing character’, but has had the conviction quashed on appeal, on the basis that, as it was a joke, it was not of a menacing character.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The director of public prosecutions (DPP) stopped his staff dropping the case against Paul Chambers, author of the ‘Twitter joke’ about blowing up Robin Hood airport in South Yorkshire, it has been claimed.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Paul Chambers’s conviction shows the law’s difficulties in discriminating between tones of voice in emails, tweets and texts.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet threatening to blow up an airport has won a challenge against his conviction.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A person who entered into betting transactions on an Internet betting exchange in the course of his business was not a bookmaker for the purposes of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963.”
WLR Daily, 20th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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