“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is taking steps to close down a company which claims to process thousands of loan applications a week.”
BBC News, 29th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Watchdog publishes damning report into deaths at two London hospitals, Queen’s in Romford and King George’s in Goodmayes.”
The Guardian, 27th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Mr Justice Tugendhat has dismissed a £1m defamation claim launched against Law Society chief executive Des Hudson by Solicitors from Hell owner Rick Kordowksi, branding the bid ‘an abuse of the court process’.”
The Lawyer, 21st October 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Web hosts and ISPs should be allowed to keep allegedly defamatory comments online as long as the author of the comment is identified and a notice of complaint is published alongside the comment, a Parliamentary committee has recommended.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The government is making it more difficult for the public to challenge decisions made by the state, the official watchdog for complaints has warned.”
The Guardian, 21st October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, said that Richard Desmond and other newspaper owners should not be allowed to duck out of regulation by a reformed Press Complaints Commission (PCC).”
The Guardian, 19th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A young mother was beaten to death by her violent ex-partner after police failed to intervene 11 times, investigators said today.”
The Independent, 18th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The UK’s advertising watchdog may not investigate complaints businesses make about rivals’ adverts if the complaining firms have not tried to resolve the disputes with their competitors first.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into how ITV mistakenly included video game footage in a documentary that supposedly showed the IRA shooting down a helicopter with weapons supplied by Muammar Gaddafi.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Organisations do not have to issue all the information stored in complaint files in order to comply with individuals’ personal data access requests, the UK’s data protection watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Independent body fielding complaints against lawyers has come in under budget, and with a positive reaction from the profession.”
The Guardian, 7th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said that it is set to report record annual complaints figures as a result of changes to its responsibilities earlier this year. It said that almost one third of complaints are now about online advertising falling under its extended remit.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“David Starkey, the historian, has been cleared by the broadcasting watchdog over comments he made on newsnight that led to complaints he had been racist.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Hugh Tomlinson QC analyses the various options for replacing the Press Complaints Commission.”
The Guardian, 30th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ofcom has ordered UK broadcasters to be more careful about showing sexually explicit music videos before the 9pm watershed. The regulator issued new guidance on Friday, focusing on the visual as well as the verbal content of some music videos in a bid to tighten the enforcement of existing watershed rules.”
The Guardian, 30th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“”The UK’s system for registering asylum claims is chaotic and unworkable and urgently needs a root-and-branch overhaul, lawyers’ groups allege. Problems at the ‘Kafkaesque’ asylum screening unit in Croydon, the only such unit remaining after a similar unit in Liverpool closed in 2009, have prompted angry letters to the UK Border Agency from the Law Society and Immigration Lawyers Practitioners Association (ILPA).”
Law Society’s Gazette, 29th September 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A four-year inquiry into £3.7m worth of ‘unreconciled’ spending on corporate credit cards by members of Scotland Yard has led to the conviction of six officers, and the disciplining of 34 others, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.”
The Guardian, 28th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading is to investigate whether UK holidaymakers are paying too much for foreign currency following a super-complaint by a consumer watchdog.”
The Guardian, September 21st 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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