EE fined £1m by Ofcom for poor complaints handling – BBC News
‘EE, the UK’s largest mobile phone operator, has been fined £1m by the regulator Ofcom for breaching rules on handling customer complaints.’
BBC News, 3rd July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: telecommunications
FCA to consult on issue of unsolicited marketing in consumer credit market this summer – OUT-LAW.com
‘The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to consult on the issue of unsolicited marketing by consumer credit firms this summer, according to an answer given in the UK parliament.’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st July 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
Tribunal rejects request for correspondence between solicitor and planning officers – Local Government Lawyer
‘The First-Tier Tribunal has ruled that a district council was entitled to refuse to disclose correspondence passing between one of its solicitors and various members of its planning department.’
Full story
Local Government Lawyer, 30th June 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Independent reviewer recommends redraft of UK surveillance laws – OUT-LAW.com
‘Existing UK surveillance laws should be scrapped and replaced by a “comprehensive and comprehensible new law…drafted from scratch”, the barrister appointed to review UK terrorism legislation has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 16th June 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
What to look out for in Britain’s new surveillance bill – The Guardian
‘The government intends wholesale reform, but will it perpetuate a dark history of invasion of privacy or follow the US example, and end invasive surveillance?’
The Guardian, 5th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal challenge against Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act reaches High Court – OUT-LAW.com
‘A legal challenge fronted by two UK MPs against communications surveillance laws passed last year has reached the High Court.’
OUT-LAW.com, 4th June 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
Emergency surveillance law faces legal challenge by MPs – BBC News
‘The High Court is to hear a legal challenge to the government’s emergency surveillance law brought by two MPs.’
BBC News, 4th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Gulati v MGN Ltd – WLR Daily
Gulati v MGN Ltd [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch); [2015] WLR (D) 232
‘Damages for infringement of privacy rights should compensate not merely for distress but also, if appropriate, for a loss of privacy or autonomy arising out of the infringement as such, which might include, if appropriate, a sum to compensate for damage to dignity or standing so far as that was meaningful and not already compensated under the distress element.’
WLR Daily, 21st May 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
The police ask to look at our private messages once every 120 seconds – The Independent
‘Police officers in the UK ask for permission to monitor use of emails, text messages and internet searches once every two minutes, a new report has disclosed.’
The Independent, 1st June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
UK police requests to access phone calls or emails are granted 93% of the time – The Guardian
‘Ministers are facing calls to curb the scale of police access to private phone and email records, after a report by privacy campaigners found officers were making a request every two minutes and getting access in 93% of cases.’
The Guardian, 1st June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Queen’s Speech: New online data terror powers proposed – BBC News
‘Planned new laws to give police and spies stronger powers to “target the online communications” of terrorist suspects are in the Queen’s Speech.’
BBC News, 27th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Phone hacking at Trinity Mirror ‘widespread’ for a decade, says judge – The Guardian
‘Phone hacking at the tabloid publisher Trinity Mirror was “widespread and frequent” for a decade, a high court judge has ruled as he ordered the company to pay a record £1.2m in privacy damages to eight victims, including the actor Sadie Frost and ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne.’
The Guardian, 21st May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Phone hacking: Paul Gascoigne wins damages from Mirror Group – BBC News
‘Former footballer Paul Gascoigne has won £188,250 in phone-hacking damages from Mirror Group Newspapers.’
BBC News, 21st May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Codes of practice for the acquisition, disclosure and retention of communications data – Home Office
‘Guidance on the procedures that should be followed when the communications data is accessed or disclosed under RIPA, or retained under DRIPA or the ATCSA.’
Home Office, 15th May 2015
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Judge grants Operation Elveden police access to press phone records – BBC News
‘A judge has granted police permission to access journalists’ phone records for the first time in a public hearing.
Full story
BBC News, 5th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
News focus: law and justice pledges – Law Society’s Gazette
‘The general election manifestos are in – here’s our quick-fire summary of their headline pledges on law and justice.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 20th April 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Tribunal increases ICO fine over unsolicited marketing by 50% – OUT-LAW.com
‘A UK court has increased the level of fine imposed on a business which made unsolicited marketing calls to people signed up to the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) by 50%.’
OUT-LAW.com, 17th April 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
Ofcom to consider impact of mobiles and VOIP on landline providers’ market dominance as part of next review – OUT-LAW.com
‘The growing use of mobile phones, Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and text-based and social media services to initiate calls may mean that the UK’s dominant landline telephone providers no longer require the strictest form of regulation, Ofcom has suggested.’
OUT-LAW.com, 8th April 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
