EU data protection compliance – Law Society’s Gazette
‘The General Data Protection Regulation is here to stay: well beyond the date of Brexit. What do you need to know?’
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Anonymity – London Review of Books
‘Anonymous and pseudonymous publication has a long history. It may now be the exception in literary and specialist journalism, but at the start of the 19th century it was pretty much the rule – to the extent that France in 1850 legislated to forbid the publication of unsigned articles on philosophical, political and religious subjects. A new book by Eric Barendt, Anonymous Speech: Literature, Law and Politics (Hart, £25), traces the contemporaneous voluntary abandonment of anonymity in England and the often pompous arguments that accompanied it. The fact was that journals’ recruitment of well-known writers – Thackeray, Dickens – was starting to put a premium on names. So when the Fortnightly Review started up in 1865, it announced that all its articles would be signed and free of editorial pressure. By contrast, from its foundation in 1913 the New Statesman anonymised its contributors, though the editor, having explained that this was necessary in order to establish a common style and tone, couldn’t resist announcing that Sidney Webb and Bernard Shaw would be writing for it. In 1925 the Spectator, after not quite a hundred years of unsigned articles, abandoned anonymity, and the New Statesman followed. Articles in the TLS remained anonymous until 1974, and obituaries in the Times and Telegraph are unsigned to this day. So are the entirety of the Economist and the bulk of Private Eye.’
London Review of Books, 19th January 2017
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
KFC fined £1m over Teesside workers’ gravy burns – BBC News
‘Fast food chain KFC has been fined almost £1m after two employees suffered burns while handling hot gravy without gloves.’
BBC News, 20th January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
UK judges change court rules on child contact for violent fathers – The Guardian
‘Senior judges are taking steps to end the presumption that a father must have contact with a child where there is evidence of domestic abuse that would put the child or mother at risk.’
The Guardian, 20th January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Thousands of drivers caught in mobile phone crackdown – BBC News
‘Almost 8,000 drivers were caught using a mobile phone behind the wheel during a week-long crackdown by police.’
BBC News, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Whistleblower wins 13-year campaign against HSBC – The Guardian
‘A lone whistleblower has won a 13-year “David and Goliath battle” against HSBC and Britain’s chief financial watchdog, resulting in a multimillion-pound compensation payout to thousands of people.’
The Guardian, 20th January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Paedophile Adam Isaac groomed boys on Minecraft – BBC News
‘A man who groomed young boys through the online game Minecraft has been jailed for two years and eight months.’
BBC News, 20th Janaury 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court compensates winning party for impact of falling exchange rate on costs – Litigation Futures
‘The High Court has awarded a successful German claimant an extra £20,000 in costs to compensate for the impact of the falling value of sterling against the euro – especially since the EU referendum vote – as it had to convert euros into pounds during the case to pay its solicitors.’
Litigation Futures, 19th January 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Discount rate announcement set to go ahead after ABI loses judicial review bid – Litigation Futures
‘The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has today lost its High Court bid to halt the Lord Chancellor announcing the outcome of the consultation on the discount rate.’
Litigation Futures, 20th January 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Four versions of Brexit law prepared as Government braced for Supreme Court defeat in Article 50 case – Daily Telegraph
‘Four different versions of the law giving Theresa May the power to start Brexit have already been prepared as ministers brace themselves for Supreme Court defeat this week.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Lee Rigby’s mother ‘threatened with arrest’ over court hearing – The Guardian
‘The mother of murdered soldier Lee Rigby has said she was threatened with arrest unless she attended the appeal hearing of a man who harassed her over her son’s death.’
The Guardian, 22nd January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Magistrates struggle (again) with the use of imprisonment for non-payment of council tax – by Sam Genen and Sophie Walker – UK Human Rights Blog
‘There is an exceedingly long line of case law, stretching back beyond the days of the community charge (which was of course better known as the Poll Tax). In those cases, the courts have traditionally quashed custodial orders improperly imposed by magistrates for non-payment of council taxes.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Online dating fraud victim numbers at record high – BBC News
‘The number of people defrauded in the UK by online dating scams reached a record high in 2016, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned.’
BBC News, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Home Office Eritrea guidance softened to reduce asylum seeker numbers – The Guardian
‘The government downplayed the risk of human rights abuses in one of the world’s most repressive regimes in an attempt to reduce asylum seeker numbers despite doubts from its own experts, internal documents have revealed.’
The Guardian, 22nd January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Why you can’t legally commit adultery if you have a gay or lesbian affair – The Independent
‘If you cheat on your partner with someone of the same sex, it’s not considered adultery – even if you’re in a same-sex marriage.’
The Independent, 20th January 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Judges “should be slow” to consider reasonableness of settlement stance – Litigation Futures
‘Judges should be “very slow to entertain a discussion as to whether parties to litigation have negotiated in a reasonable manner”, the Court of Appeal has cautioned.’
Litigation Futures, 19th January 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.co.uk`
City settles claim over failure to protect woman when in care as child – Local Government Lawyer
‘Peterborough City Council has reached an out of court settlement with a woman who accused it of failing to protect her when she was in its care as a child.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th January 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Data protection must become ‘a fundamental part of daily business practice’, says expert – OUT-LAW.com
‘Organisations must treat data protection as “a fundamental part of daily business practice” to ensure legal compliance, particularly under forthcoming new legislation which takes effect next year, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th January 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
The long arm of the law: Belhaj and Rahmatullah (No.1) – UK Human Rights Blog
‘This blog is the first covering the series of three important judgments given on Tuesday by the Supreme Court on issues arising out of the War on Terror and the United Kingdom’s interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Belhaj and another v Straw and others) and Rahmatullah (No 1) v Ministry of Defence and another [2017] UKSC 3 involved the alleged complicity of United Kingdom officials in allegedly tortious acts of the UK or other states overseas. The torts alleged include unlawful detention and rendition, torture or cruel and inhuman treatment and assault.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th January 2017
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Angela Patrick: Blushes and Torture: Act of State Doctrine and Justiciability – UK Constitutional Law Association
‘In a week when Supreme Court watchers expected to dissect the Brexit judgment, the Justices instead handed down their long awaited decision in the joined cases of Belhaj & Ors v Straw & Ors; Rahmatullah (No 1) v Ministry of Defence & Ors [2017] UKSC 3. These appeals both involved unsuccessful attempts to strike out claims based on allegations of UK complicity in international wrongs – including torture and rendition and arbitrary detention – on the basis that our domestic courts should not exercise their jurisdiction in either case.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 19th January 2017
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
