“A primary school teacher who was caught with indecent images of children and extreme pornography involving animals has been jailed for six months.”
BBC News, 29th July 2013
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“Most porn on demand services available to British internet users are operated from outside the UK putting them beyond UK regulation, a regulator has warned.”
The Independent, 19th July 2013
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“Internet and telecom companies will be ordered by the Government to block “harmful” content such as extremist material and pornography in the wake of the Woolwich terrorist attack and killing of five-year-old April Jones.”
The Independent, 6th June 2013
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“Joshua Rozenberg returns for another series of Law in Action. This week, Joshua asks the president of the European Court of Human Rights, Dean Spielmann, what he makes of the fierce criticism levelled at his court by some in Britain. The short answer: not much. Also in the programme: what are we really agreeing to when we accept internet companies’ terms of service? And are pornography laws in England and Wales working?”
BBC Law in Action, 4th June 2013
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“Mark Bridger’s conviction for the murder of five-year-old April Jones has once more brought the issue of online child abuse to the fore. Many are in agreement that more needs to be done by web companies to block and remove such content. But what exactly is being done now, and how effective is it?”
BBC News, 31st May 2013
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“Pressure groups have warned British retailers they could face legal action if they display magazines showing naked and near-naked images on their covers.”
BBC News, 27th May 2013
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A female police firearms officer tricked into opening a filing cabinet full of porn and offered a “pink gun” as a weapon has been awarded £20,000 in compensation.
Daily Telegraph, 21st May 2013
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“A child protection charity says it is impossible to catch every person who looks at indecent images and more needs to be done to stop people from looking at them.”
BBC News, 23rd February 2013
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“Bristol City Council v C and others [2012] EWHC 3748 (Fam). This was an application for a reporting restriction order arising out of care proceedings conducted before the Bristol Family Proceedings Court. The proceedings themselves were relatively straightforward but, in the course of the hearing, information came to light which gave rise to concerns of an ‘unusual nature’, which alerted the interest of the press.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Where a court had found that arrangements entered into by copyright owners with a claimant copyright owner to sue intended defendants in its own name and on behalf of the other owners for alleged breach of copyright were not champertous and that it was proportionate to make an order for disclosure to enable the other owners to have their infringement claims brought, since their interests in enforcing their copyrights outweighed the interests of intended defendants in protecting their privacy and data protection rights, there was no justification for the court to grant relief to the claimant alone and not the other owners without identifying some factor as affecting the balance of the competing interests identified.”
WLR Daily, 21st December 2012
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“Ministers have rejected plans to automatically block internet access to pornography on all computers, saying the move is not widely supported.”
BBC News, 15th December 2012
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“Classification chiefs will tighten their policy on ‘sexual or sadistic violence’ after new research found public concern over its effect on ‘vulnerable viewers’.”
The Independent, 10th December 2012
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“A consultation into whether UK internet users should have to opt-in in order to access adult content is set to close on Thursday.”
BBC News, 6th September 2012
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“Despite Simon Walsh’s acquittal by a jury, the case raises questions about the right of the state to intrude on individual’s private and consensual sex lives.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2012
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“A 52-year-old man has been jailed for 18 months for offences relating to indecent images of children.”
BBC News, 26th July 2012
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“More than 2,000 O2 customers will receive letters accusing them of illegally downloading porn films.”
BBC News, 24th July 2012
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“Raymond Hodgson, 31, was charged with common assault after being appalled to discover that his partner of five years, Emma McCormick, had been reading the racy book.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teenager who raped a five-year-old girl while babysittng her was spared a custodial sentence after a judge heard he had been ‘corrupted’ by internet pornography.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd July 2012
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“The Government has been forced to close a public consultation on blocking online pornography after it emerged visitors were able to view others’ supposedly confidential responses, and personal details including passwords.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th June 2012
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