“The home secretary, Theresa May, has been told by peers and MPs that her £1.8bn internet monitoring proposals will be a ‘honeypot for hackers and criminals around the world’ and that she must bring in prison sentences for those who hack databases.”
The Guardian, 31st October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Twitter has said that Government plans to increase the UK intelligence services’ communications surveillance capabilities could cause it to breach the privacy rights of individuals based elsewhere in the world.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th September 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Should the Communications Data Bill become law, it will be an intervention too far from the surveillance state.”
The Observer, 9th September 2012
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
“Higher fines for firms that fail to co-operate with regulators and potential criminal sanctions for benchmark manipulation have been suggested by the Treasury Select Committee in a report responding to alleged manipulation of market rates by major banks.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Public bodies should face higher fines for destroying or altering information that is ‘disclosable’ under freedom of information (FOI) laws, a committee of MPs has recommended.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“‘Confusing’ UK laws are spurring the trade in endangered species, a wildlife charity has said.”
BBC News, 12th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Families of missing people will be given greater support when a loved one goes missing with today’s announcement that the Government will introduce a certificate of presumed death – through legislation.”
Ministry of Justice, 6th July 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Pressure from former senior Labour figures, including Tony Blair and Jack Straw, as well as Whitehall mandarins, to ‘turn back the clock’ on freedom of information legislation has been decisively rejected by an all-party group of MPs.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Publishers should develop new licensing models that would allow researchers to use computerised techniques to read information contained in journal articles at ‘realistic rates’, MPs have said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The attorney general is to meet MPs on the select committee investigating phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, in a highly unusual bid to ensure its final report does not prejudice potential court proceedings against any of the 45 individuals so far arrested by police.”
The Guardian, 16th April 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
“The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) came fully into force on 1st January 2005. Since then there has been a right of access to information, on request, exercisable against a wide range of public authorities. So we have a little over 7 years’ experience of a fully functioning FOIA regime.”
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11 KBW, 16th March 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“Ken Clarke’s plans to abolish the quango that monitors thousands of legal tribunals and ombudsmen rulings will be challenged on Thursday by a committee of MPs.”
The Guardian, 8th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, has admitted to being ‘unsettled’ by criticism from lawyers about his plans for extending secret courts.”
The Guardian, 6th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“With the Leveson inquiry into media ethics and practices attracting so much attention, it was easy to overlook another contribution to the debate about media law last week: the government’s response to the draft defamation bill.”
The Guardian, 5th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers will decide by next April whether to change the law on missing people in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 30th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Freedom of Information act is a mistake, and is having a negative effect on governing, Britain’s top civil servant said. Sir Gus O’Donnell told the Commons public administration select committee that it had stymied full and frank discussion of options by ministers and others in government. The 2001 act gives members of the public and journalists the right to ask for publication of official documents.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“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
“A senior judge yesterday blamed a ‘relentless’ press campaign on soft sentencing for prisons now being full.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The committee scrutinising the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill resumes its work today (Tuesday 6 September). A number of amendments have been put forward for consideration by members of the committee which includes the justice minister Jonathan Djanogly MP and his Labour opposition counterpart, Andrew Slaughter MP.”
LAG News Blog, 6th September 2011
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