“Retailers that supply age-rated video games to children who are below the specified age could face up to six months in jail and a £5,000 fine under a new age classification regime in operation in the UK.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“It will be possible to use a speeded up Parliamentary approval process for changing parts of copyright law that carry penalties of up to 10 years in jail under a proposed new law, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Employment tribunals will be able to order companies who lose sex discrimination cases to disclose the gap in pay between their male and female employees under plans announced by the Equalities Minister.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Fines for breaking the rules of the road could be increased from £60 to £90 under government plans that have been sent out for consultation.”
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The Guardian, 14th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The controversial rule allowing the Football League and Premier League to insist that football players, managers and other clubs get paid before other creditors if a football club enters administration will ‘likely become an irrelevance’ as penalties against insolvent teams become more sophisticated, according to an expert.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A new law to stop the trade in scrap metal stolen from churches, war memorials and railways is likely to be introduced by the Coalition.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were disciplined a total of 992 times for unlawfully or inappropriately accessing individuals’ social security records between April 2011 and January this year.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Plans for a new tool to tackle economic crime were published today for consultation by Solicitor General Edward Garnier QC and Justice Minister Crispin Blunt.”
Attorney General’s Office, 17th May 2012
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“The Lord Chief Justice has asked Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Treacy to conduct a review of sanctions for disclosure failures.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 26th april 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Magistrates will have the power to hand out summary justice in police stations or community centres under a planned overhaul of out of court penalties to be revealed next month.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Government will introduce new laws that enable businesses and prosecutors to negotiate the punishments those firms should face for unlawful activity before the end of this Parliament, a top legal advisor has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Adam Smith is often quoted for his comment on cartels:
‘People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices’.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 21st March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Legislation to enable US-style deferred prosecutions for corporate crime may feature in the Queen’s speech on 9 May.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 15th March 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reduced fines for organisations that have breached data protection law in half of the cases in which it has issued direct fines, Out-Law.com can reveal.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Newspapers should be fined if they are found to be in ‘systemic’ breach of the standards set out in the industry’s code of practice, the director of the Press Complaints Commission has conceded at the Leveson inquiry.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Magistrates will be able to hand out summary justice in police stations under a radical overhaul of out-of-court penalties being considered by the Government.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who made approximately £25,000 from selling unlawfully obtained personal data has been issued with a £1,700 fine and conditional discharge by a UK court.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Courts should have the power to punish people breaching the Data Protection Act with prison sentences, MPs on the justice select committee have said.”
BBC News, 27th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Yobs are to be punished by their neighbours in new ‘justice panels’ as part of a radical overhaul of out-of-court penalties, the policing minister will say today.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Magistrates and crown court judges could be asked to dock benefits from convicted criminals under preliminary proposals being drawn up by the government in response to the riots, the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 7th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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