Insurance surgery: Stressing the point – New Law Journal
‘Caroline Coates provides an update on claims for work-related stress.’
New Law Journal, 31st October 2014
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
Day: 3 November 2014
Orphan Works Licensing – NIPC Law
‘One of the consequences of extending the term of copyright in many types of copyright has been a massive increase in the number of works in which copyright subsists whose owners cannot be identified or found. Such works are known as “orphan works” and HM government claims that there are some 91 million of them in the UK alone. Because their owners cannot be traced orphan works cannot lawfully be reproduced even for preservation. Consequently, works recorded on such media as celluloid film and magnetic tape may be lost for ever. Much of that work is culturally important and some of it is of considerable scientific interest such as patient records in studies of malaria. In Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth Professor Hargreaves described the problem of orphan works as “the starkest failure of the copyright framework to adapt.”‘
NIPC Law, 3rd November 2014
Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
New rules on remote gambling set to come into force – OUT-LAW.com
‘Organisations which provide or advertise remote gambling facilities in Great Britain must now be licensed by the Gambling Commission regardless of where those organisations are based in the world, under new rules that come into force tomorrow [1 November].’
OUT-LAW.com, 31st October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Fiona Woolf resigns as chair of government’s child abuse inquiry – The Guardian
‘The government’s child sex abuse inquiry was thrown into crisis after Fiona Woolf became the second senior legal figure to quit as chair over her links to the Westminster political establishment.’
The Guardian, 31st October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
EVENT: SOAS – Arbitration Seminar Series: Emergency arbitrator procedure
‘Guest speaker: Mr Shai Wade, partner at Stephenson Harwood, Partner at Stephenson Harwood LLP
Chair: Dr Emilia Onyema’
Date: 20th November 2014, 7.00-9.00pm
Location: Room 4426, Russell Square: College Building
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
Phasing in new legislation – Law Society’s Gazette
‘The major piece of criminal law legislation for 2014 is the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act. It has been brought gradually into force throughout the year.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd November 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Puppy farmer jailed for at least 25 years for double murder – The Guardian
‘An 82-year-old puppy farmer has been jailed for at least 25 years for murdering his partner and her daughter in a double killing on his dog farm in Surrey.’
The Guardian, 31st October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
What’s the plot? Conspiracy and 19th Century comic opera (again) – Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘Ever since Johnson v Moreton [1980] AC 37 (61E-G per Lord Hailsham: ‘we should have to adopt the carefree attitude of the Mikado…’), references to Gilbert and Sullivan have been gaining ground in the judgments of our higher Courts. When last year Arden LJ rejected the argument, advanced by the claimant victim of a cartel, that it suffices to establish the intention requirement for the tort of unlawful means conspiracy that the claimant forms part of a class of persons against whom a cartelist’s wrongful acts were targeted, she did so by reference to The Gondoliers.’
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 2nd November 2014
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
Rolf Harris loses first appeal bid over convictions – The Guardian
‘Rolf Harris has lost the first round of his bid to appeal against his convictions for a string of indecent assaults.’
The Guardian, 31st October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Southwark to bring judicial review over plans for ‘super-sewer’ for London – Local Government Lawyer
‘Southwark Council has applied to the High Court to bring judicial review proceedings over ministers’ approval of plans for the so-called ‘super-sewer’ in London.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd November 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
IPO launches new ‘orphan works’ licensing system – OUT-LAW.com
‘Businesses wishing to make use of copyrighted works that have no known rights holder can now obtain a licence allowing them to use the material without infringing UK copyright laws under a new licensing system launched by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO).’
OUT-LAW.com, 31st October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Police cautions could be scrapped in reform of criminal punishments – The Independent
‘Police cautions could be scrapped under the Justice Secretary’s plans to stop victims feeling criminals have got away “scot-free”.’
The Independent, 1st November 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Junior doctor Raza Laskar admits sexually abusing boys – BBC News
‘A junior doctor working in paediatrics has admitted sexually abusing boys as young as 12.’
BBC News, 31st October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Secret trial: Erol Incedal claims he was plotting robbery not terror attack – Daily Telegraph
‘The law student denies terrorism offences, saying he had contemplated committing an armed robbery or buying heroin or a gun instead’
Daily Telegraph, 31st October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
A1(M) wrong-way police car collision driver jailed – BBC News
‘A motorist who drove for eight miles in the wrong direction on the A1(M) motorway before colliding with a police car has been jailed.’
BBC News, 31st October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Theresa May accused of delaying abuse report publication amid inquiry furore – The Guardian
‘Theresa May, the home secretary, has been accused of delaying the release of a completed report about the Home Office’s handling of child abuse allegations during the furore about who should chair the new official inquiry into what happened.’
The Guardian, 2nd November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Britain First Rochester election mail leaflet dubbed illegal – BBC News
‘Royal Mail has said it will not deliver a leaflet for the right wing party Britain First in the Rochester and Strood by-election because it believes it to be illegal.’
BBC News, 31st October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Family of girl who killed herself after arrest challenges detention policy – The Guardian
‘Kesia Leatherbarrow broke a window trying to enter a residential care home for ex-addicts to visit a friend. When officers arrested the 17-year-old, they discovered a small quantity of cannabis. She spent two nights and three days in police custody; a few hours after being released, she hanged herself.’
The Guardian, 2nd November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court to rule on Rwandan genocide extradition this week – The Independent
‘Supreme Court judges will be asked this week to rule whether five men accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide should be extradited to face trial.’
The Independent, 2nd November 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
