“Jonathan May-Bowles, the comedian who threw a foam pie at media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has been convicted of assault and causing harassment, alarm or distress.”
Daiy Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A 52-year-old man has been jailed for 13 years after being convicted of sex assaults on children in West Norfolk between 1975 and 1990.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Eight national newspapers have made public apologies today to Christopher Jefferies for the libellous allegations made against him following the murder of Joanna Yeates. The titles – The Sun, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Record, Daily Mail, Daily Star, The Scotsman and Daily Express – have also agreed to pay him substantial libel damages, thought to total six figures.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two companies have been fined a total of £75,000 after a man was dragged through a 5in (13cm) gap in machinery.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men from Hull have been jailed for their parts in an operation to smuggle heroin with a street value of £13m in packets of baby powder.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“OPINION: Are you reading this at work? Are you sure you are not breaking copyright law by doing so? If OUT-LAW.COM copied most websites’ terms and conditions you probably would be, if the Court of Appeal is to be believed. Yesterday it said that the users of a clippings service infringed newspaper publishers’ copyrights when they clicked on links to view articles on web pages. But a fairly obscure spat over business information has the potential to derail much of the basis of online publishing.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Users of a clippings service must have a licence from newspaper publishers to click on links taking them to newspaper website pages to avoid infringing the publishers’ copyrights, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A report by the parliamentary select committee on culture, media and sport could have major ramifications for the game.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three people have been found guilty of murdering a woman who was found dead on a disused railway line.”
BBC News, 29th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three soldiers were unlawfully killed by a rogue Afghan soldier in Helmand in July 2010, an inquest has ruled.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The independence of the Information Commissioner’s Office has been called into question by Labour after the watchdog declined to pursue an inquiry into minister Jonathan Djanogly.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The bereaved husband of a doctor has undertaken a legal test case claiming sex discrimination because he is receiving a smaller NHS pension than if he were a widow.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A company that closed one of its private hospitals after horrifying allegations of abuse must make ‘root and branch improvements’, a social care watchdog has said.”
The Independent, 28th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Government today promised a ‘much tougher approach to organised crime’ as it outlined a new strategy to tackle drug gangs and fraudsters.”
The Independent, 28th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two men have been jailed for a combined total of 20 years for their roles in a ‘simple but ingenious’ plot to bring millions of pounds worth of heroin into the UK disguised as baby powder.”
The Independent, 28th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Today’s Sun front page carries a single column panel, at the foot of the first column, that should be seen as something of a landmark – for the paper and for the Press Complaints Commission.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hollywood film studios won a landmark UK high court ruling on Thursday forcing BT to block access to an illegal file-sharing website accused of operating ‘on a grand scale’.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The star of the original Yorkie chocolate bar adverts has admitted killing his terminally-ill wife.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two half-brothers convicted of killing a 19-month-old girl in an ‘evil’ revenge arson attack have been jailed.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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