‘A woman who copied photos of babies from other people’s Instagram accounts, posted them as her own and claimed they were sick or dead in a bid to get money has been banned from using social media for two years.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd October 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man who called an MP’s office and said she should be “Jo Cox’d” has been jailed for eight weeks.’
BBC News, 25th April 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A police team created to handle crimes against MPs has dealt with 53 complaints since the murder of Jo Cox.’
BBC News, 19th March 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Anonymous and pseudonymous publication has a long history. It may now be the exception in literary and specialist journalism, but at the start of the 19th century it was pretty much the rule – to the extent that France in 1850 legislated to forbid the publication of unsigned articles on philosophical, political and religious subjects. A new book by Eric Barendt, Anonymous Speech: Literature, Law and Politics (Hart, £25), traces the contemporaneous voluntary abandonment of anonymity in England and the often pompous arguments that accompanied it. The fact was that journals’ recruitment of well-known writers – Thackeray, Dickens – was starting to put a premium on names. So when the Fortnightly Review started up in 1865, it announced that all its articles would be signed and free of editorial pressure. By contrast, from its foundation in 1913 the New Statesman anonymised its contributors, though the editor, having explained that this was necessary in order to establish a common style and tone, couldn’t resist announcing that Sidney Webb and Bernard Shaw would be writing for it. In 1925 the Spectator, after not quite a hundred years of unsigned articles, abandoned anonymity, and the New Statesman followed. Articles in the TLS remained anonymous until 1974, and obituaries in the Times and Telegraph are unsigned to this day. So are the entirety of the Economist and the bulk of Private Eye.’
London Review of Books, 19th January 2017
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
‘A man who sent a threatening voice message to senior Labour MP Ben Bradshaw the day before the killing of parliamentary colleague Jo Cox has been given a suspended sentence.’
The Guardian, 23rd August 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man accused of posting a threatening message on an MP’s Facebook page days after the killing of politician Jo Cox has had the case against him dropped.’
BBC News, 18th August 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A pair of burglars are facing prison after torturing a wealthy couple in their home before making off with £20,000 in cash, gold ornaments and silverware. John McCarthy, 35, and Richard Leslie, 37, were among a gang who terrified the couple during a night-time raid in November 2014.’
The Guardian, 7th July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The chief constable leading the fight against digital crime is calling for new legislation to tackle an “unimagined scale of online abuse” that he says is threatening to overwhelm the police service. Stephen Kavanagh, who heads Essex police, argues it is necessary to consolidate and simplify offences committed online to improve the chance of justice for tens of thousands of victims.’
The Guardian, 4th March 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Bahar Mustafa, the Goldsmiths student diversity officer who was due to appear in court after allegedly tweeting the hashtag #killallwhitemen, has had charges against her dropped.’
The Guardian, 3rd November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An internet troll who claimed the murder of Lee Rigby was a conspiracy has been spared jail.’
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BBC News, 27th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A 25-year-old man from Kidderminster has today, 13th August, been sentenced to a 12 month community order, handed a fine and ordered to pay costs, as prosecutors continue to tackle revenge porn across England and Wales using the new legislation.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 13th August 2015
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘Ariel Ricci, barrister at Coram Chambers, Julie Pinborough, Founder and Director of the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre and Frances Ridout, Deputy Director of the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre consider the growing problem of “revenge pornography”.’
Family Law Week, 31st July 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘A primary school teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after praising Isil for beheading aid worker Alan Henning in string of offensive social media posts.’
Daily Telegraph, 2nd July 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Convictions for crimes under a law used to prosecute internet trolls have increased nearly eight-fold in a decade, official figures reveal. Last year, 1,209 people were found guilty of offences under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 compared with 143 in 2004.’
The Independent, 24th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The prevalence of racist and misogynistic abuse online has become firmly established as a matter that now warrants considerable political attention. As legislators pick between the differences in “real world” and online forms of abuse, as well as judicial borders of the internet, Rhory Robertson, partner at Collyer Bristow LLP, outlines the many questions that must be addressed in any new lawmaking.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 6th March 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘The case of a UK businessman who wants Google to stop malicious web postings about him appearing in its search results is set to begin.’
BBC News, 24th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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