“A sender of unlawful spam text messages has successfully appealed against a watchdog’s decision to fine him £300,000 over the activity after an Information Rights Tribunal ruled that insufficient damage or distress had been caused to recipients to merit the penalty being imposed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th October 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Britain’s mobile phone operators could be forced by Government to invest more in next generation services after ‘shocking’ figures showed thousands of miles of roads have no 3G coverage at all.
Daily Telegraph, 24th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Master of the Rolls speech: Hong Kong lecture – 18 October 2013.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 22nd October 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Niebel v Information Commissioner is the first Tribunal decision about penalties under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (‘PECR’). Mr.Niebel successfully appealed against a penalty of £300,000.”
Panopticon, 22nd October 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“Three UK broadcasters have won the right to prevent an online streaming service provider from retransmitting the TV programmes they show to users of mobile devices via any ‘mobile telephony network’.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th October 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“GCHQ is probably intercepting legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients, according to a detailed claim filed on behalf of eight Libyans involved in politically sensitive compensation battles with the UK.”
The Guardian, 13th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Model and TV personality Katie Price has received undisclosed damages over phone hacking, the High Court has heard.”
BBC News, 9th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who arranged for two men to attack her former partner has been jailed for manslaughter.”
BBC News, 8th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Laws used by Britain’s spy agencies to justify mass surveillance and interception techniques must be reviewed to ensure they have kept pace with ‘incredible changes’ in communications, one of the country’s foremost intelligence experts has said.”
The Guardian, 26th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A West Mercia police officer who sent sexual text messages to female victims of crime has been jailed for 15 months.”
BBC News, 16th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has refused to allow husband and wife to rekindle their marriage despite them both pleading for a restraining order to be lifted, saying they must first prove they can get on over the phone.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who killed a couple when his lorry toppled on to their car as he read a text message has been jailed.”
BBC News, 29th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Convicted criminals in the West Midlands are being paid to work in call centres.”
BBC News, 21st August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“BT and Vodafone are among seven large telecoms firms which could be pulled into a legal challenge under human rights law for cooperating with GCHQ’s large-scale internet surveillance programs.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Premium rate customer service phone lines are to be banned in a Government crackdown, but banks, train operators and airlines have been let off the hook by ministers.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd and others [2013] EWHC 2119 (Ch); [2013] WLR (D) 314
“The well established requirement for disclosure under Norwich Pharmacal principles for a party from whom disclosure was sought to be “involved” in or to have “facilitated” wrongdoing was too narrow and the court should ask itself whether the party was a mere witness or whether its engagement with the wrongdoing was sufficient to make it more than a mere witness and susceptible to the court’s jurisdiction to order disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 12th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An unprecedented review of the agency set up to help households block nuisance calls has been launched by regulators.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than 1,700 cases involving abusive messages sent online or via text message reached English and Welsh courts in 2012, the BBC has learned after a Freedom of Information request.”
BBC News, 30th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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