“FOCUS: Companies operating in the European Union must process personal data in line with the EU’s Data Protection Directive. But, like Google in recent years, they find themselves facing very different enforcement regimes in each country.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“We are continually hearing about the inherent value of a brand. A well established brand helps customers identify the product they’re buying and can reassure them about the quality they can expect. It is therefore no surprise that other companies often try to piggyback off well established brands in order to sell their similar product.”
Technology Law Update, 5th July 2013
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
“In British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc and Others v Microsoft Corporation Microsoft and another [2013] EWHC 1826 (Ch), Sky (that is to say British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, Sky IP International Limited, British Sky Broadcasting Limited and Sky International AG) sued Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation and Microsoft Luxembourg Sarl) for infringement of its British and Community trade marks and passing off while Microsoft counterclaimed for declarations of invalidity of Sky’s trade marks on grounds of descriptiveness and impermissible amendment.”
NIPC Law, 7th July 2013
Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
“This was a case that was potentially important for establishing whether Article 8 defences could be run by private tenants, or by licencees and occupiers of private land. Despite Sir Alan Ward’s opening, the case falls short of being that, as we shall see.”
NearlyLegal, 7th July 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The cost of practising as a solicitor is set to rise at a rate of more than four times inflation, if the Law Society’s council approves figures that will be put before it later this week.”
Legal Futures, 8th July 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“Dozens of countries are introducing legislation restricting the use of electronic cigarettes, but their proponents say they are harmless and their use could in fact save millions of lives. Could they be right?”
BBC News, 6th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A public inquiry has been demanded into the use of anti-psychotic drugs after an investigation revealed that side-effects from such medication probably played a part in the deaths, in quick succession, of four men on one hospital ward.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A report written 17 years ago into claims of abuse at children’s homes in north Wales in the 1970s and 1980s has been published.”
BBC News, 8th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Young offenders face being stripped of perks such as video games consoles in a crackdown on the ‘ludicrous’ soft regime in the youth custody system being planned by the Justice Secretary.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, celebrated the successful deportation of Abu Qatada to Jordan on Sunday by saying the long-running saga meant there would have to be ‘wholesale changes’ in Britain’s human rights laws.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A primary school teacher sacked after allegations of anti-Semitic abuse has lost his attempt to argue that his views were a ‘philosophical belief’ covered under the Equality Act.”
The Independent, 5th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“UK family immigration rules are not discriminatory and do not infringe human
rights, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 5th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The stars of Monty Python face paying out an estimated £200,000 to a former colleague after a judge ruled he should receive a share of the royalties for the musical comedy Spamalot.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“Police had no lawful justification for shooting dead a 24-year-old man in north London eight years ago, an inquiry has found.”
BBC news, 5th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Upper Tribunal has handed down two decisions on Iraq and section 27 FOIA, which raise some interesting procedural points – FCO v Information Commissioner and Plowden GIA/2474/2012 and Cabinet Office and Information Commissioner v Muttitt GIA/0957/2012.”
Panopticon, 2nd July 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“A landowner’s right to recover possession of his property does not infringe the human rights of squatters, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK Supreme Court has ruled that companies found to have infringed patents can rely on the subsequent amendment of patent claims to exonerate them from liability for damages.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Prosecutors are considering launching the first case against an undercover police officer deployed to infiltrate political campaigns. The Crown Prosecution Service is examining allegations of wrongdoing by Jim Boyling, a former member of a covert Metropolitan police unit which planted undercover officers in political groups for four decades.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An official inquiry is expected to criticise the Metropolitan police over the shooting dead of a man by an elite firearms officer.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One of James Bulger’s killers, Jon Venables, should be released from prison, the parole board has said. Venables was previously paroled, but sent back to jail for accessing child pornography.”
BBC News, 4th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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