“The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, has defended proposals to create a new generation of secret courts in the face of criticism from Nick Clegg and parliament’s human rights committee, saying the plans will make the system more accountable and more conducive to intelligence sharing with other countries.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Councils should be prepared to disclose the names of senior staff members involved in recruiting senior councillors or officials as well as details of the role they played in that recruitment, an Information Rights Tribunal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“It’s pretty hard to do anything these days without someone knowing what you’re up to. The minutiae of our lives can be pieced together by hundreds of different agencies tracking our health, spending habits, travel, requests for credit checks, presence at work, absence from work, arrival at the gym, our children’s education – the list is extensive. So why is it that the current proposals for government monitoring of email and web use are causing such a fuss?”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Ministers are to introduce a new law allowing police and security services to extend their monitoring of the public’s email and social media communications, the Home Office has confirmed.”
The Guardian, 1st April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A businessman has failed in his High Court bid to prevent his wife being told of the birth of his twins from a secret relationship.”
BBC News, 28th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“New legislation should be introduced to force search engines to delete privacy-invasive material from search indexes if the companies do not take action voluntarily, a committee of MPs has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Information Commissioner’s Office has warned employers in the UK that it would have ‘very serious concerns’ if they were to ask for Facebook login and password details from existing or would-be employees, following reports of such demands in the US.”
The Guardian, 26th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Parliament should not introduce a new privacy law, even in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, a report says.”
BBC News, 27th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“High court privacy injunctions have been given a clean bill of health by a special committee of MPs and peers which were set up in the fallout of the Ryan Giggs gagging order.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
G v de Visser (Case C-292/10); [2012] WLR (D) 87
“Where it was impossible to locate the whereabouts of a defendant, European Union law did not preclude the issue of judgment by default in circumstances where the document instituting proceedings had been served by public notice under national law, provided that the court seised of the matter had first satisfied itself that all investigations required by the principles of diligence and good faith had been undertaken to trace the defendant.”
WLR Daily, 15th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Times newspaper failed to tell a High Court judge that one of its journalists had obtained information illegally because of fears that he would be prosecuted if he told the truth, the Leveson Inquiry heard yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Tonight’s topic is Free Speech and how privacy and libel law may impact on this cherished right.”
Charon QC, 9th March 2012
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“These are truly exhilarating times for the data protection world. Viviane Reding’s recent announcement of the Commission’s proposal for a fully harmonised European data protection framework had the connotations of an Olympic opening ceremony – the years of hard work in preparation for this moment, the sense of achievement in the face of challenge and the triumphant belief that something memorable is going to come out of this. Only the big drums and the flame were missing. The jury is now out but this is without a doubt the most significant global legislative development affecting the collection, use and protection of personal information of the past 15 years.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 2nd March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“A damages claim by Manchester United and Wales footballer Ryan Giggs against the Sun newspaper has been thrown out by a High Court judge.”
BBC News, 2nd March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Christopher Graham said ‘chicken feed fines’ were insufficient to deter individuals from blagging information and expressed frustration that the ability to issue prison sentences to data blaggers for offences under the Data Protection Act (DPA) has still to be introduced. Blagging is the use of deceit to extract personal data from people or organisations.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Charlotte Church and her parents have settled their phone-hacking claim against the publisher of the News of the World, News International, in an agreement worth £600,000 in damages and costs, the high court has heard.”
The Guardian, 27th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Four private detectives have been given jail terms for conspiring to defraud people by ‘blagging’ personal information via persuasive phone calls.”
BBC News, 27th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The operators of social networking sites, such as Facebook, would not be obliged to delete every piece of information about individuals that they host under proposed new EU ‘right to be forgotten’ laws, the European Commission has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman is facing a six-figure legal bill after losing a High Court bid to stop a newspaper publishing a story about her teenage son’s rugby-playing career.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A High Court judge has revealed why radical cleric Abu Qatada’s landlord was given anonymity after he was repeatedly contacted by journalists.”
BBC News, 23rd February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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