Abortion provider BPAS fined £200,000 for data breach – BBC News
‘An abortion provider has been fined £200,000 for a data breach that revealed almost 10,000 people’s details to a hacker.’
BBC News, 7th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: fines
Pop stars’ daughter who glued herself to anti-fracking protester found guilty – The Guardian
‘The daughter of musicians Ray Davies and Chrissie Hynde has been found guilty after supergluing herself to a fellow anti-fracking protester outside the main gate of an exploratory oil drilling site.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Insolvency practitioners to be prevented from charging by the hour under new proposals – OUT-LAW.com
‘Administrators and other insolvency practitioners (IPs) could be prevented from charging an hourly rate for their services and could instead have to base their fees on a percentage of property dealt with under plans put forward for consultation by the Government.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th February 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Is a cheque book better than a defence statement? – Six Pump Court
‘There has recently been a subtle movement away from the traditional approach deployed by the State to tackle economic crime and its consequences. Whilst the criminal justice system is wheeled out and deployed in the more serious or headline capturing cases, there appears to have been a concerted attempt by the government to impose economic penalties and fines upon individuals and companies involved in financial misfeasance through the civil or regulatory route and thus sidestepping the more traditional criminal one.’
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Six Pump Court, 29th January 2014
Source: www.6pumpcourt.co.uk
Network Rail appeal over Beccles crossing fine rejected – BBC News
‘A rail firm has been told a £500,000 fine imposed after a boy was seriously injured in a crash on a Suffolk level crossing could have been much higher.’
BBC News, 17th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court stiffens penalties against solicitors over “opaque” conveyancing quotes – Legal Futures
‘A law firm whose clients were unaware of the true cost of their conveyancing after being reeled in with low quotes did not take unfair advantage of them, the High Court has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 20th January 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Stewart and Natasha Sutherland fined for term-time holiday – BBC News
‘A couple who took their children on a week-long holiday during school term time have been ordered by magistrates to pay £1,000 in costs and fines.’
BBC News, 15th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Minimum wage fine raised to £20,000 in UK – The Guardian
‘Vince Cable, the business secretary, is to toughen the regulations to ensure that a new maximum fine of £20,000 could be levied for every worker denied the minimum wage. Under the previous system, employers faced just one maximum fine of £5,000 plus a financial penalty of 50% of the missing wages.’
The Guardian, 15th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
UK firm fined £25,000 for failure to monitor, supervise and manage its appointed representatives – OUT-LAW.com
‘A firm has been fined £25,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for the misconduct of two of its sales staff acting as its ‘appointed representatives’ (ARs). Amongst other cases of misconduct, the ARs were found to have used “high-pressure sales tactics and misleading information” to push vulnerable customers into buying insurance policies.’
OUT-LAW.com, 8th January 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Driver using no hands at 60mph banned for one year – The Guardian
‘A man has been banned from driving after he was videoed by police driving with his hands behind his head at 60mph.’
The Guardian, 6th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
ICO fines payday loans company £175,000 over spam messaging – OUT-LAW.com
‘A payday loans company has been fined £175,000 by the Information Commissioner’s
Office (ICO) after the watchdog found it to be in serious breach of UK privacy
laws.’
OUT-LAW.com, 17th December 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Proceedings brought by X – WLR Daily
Proceedings brought by X (Case C-486/12); [2013] WLR (D) 485
‘Article 12(a) of Parliament and Council Directive 95/46/EC of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data did not preclude the levying of fees in respect of the communication of personal data by a public authority. Pursuant to article 12(a), in order to ensure that fees levied when the right to access personal data was exercised were not excessive for the purposes of that provision, the level of those fees could not exceed the cost of communicating such data.’
WLR Daily, 12th December 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Claims management complaints service to be toughened – Ministry of Justice
‘Consumers who receive a bad service from claims management companies could receive compensation following new law changes announced by Justice Minister Shailesh Vara.’
Ministry of Justice, 10th December 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
Halesowen forklift death factory fined over impaled worker – BBC News
‘A glue manufacturer has been fined more than £173,000 after a worker died when he was impaled on the prongs of a forklift truck.’
BBC News, 6th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Man who stripped naked and stuck a fire extinguisher hose up his bottom in a hotel corridor walks free – The Independent
‘A man who appeared from the storage cupboard of a hotel naked with a fire extinguisher hose up his bottom, has walked free from court.’
The Independent, 3rd December 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Tribunal confirms self-reporting does not provide immunity from fines but expert urges firms to self-report data breaches – OUT-LAW.com
‘A new ruling issued by an Information Rights Tribunal should not deter businesses from owning up to data breaches, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th November 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
EU migrants: David Cameron sets out more benefit restrictions – The Guardian
‘David Cameron made a fresh effort to assuage public concern about a wave of migration from Bulgaria and Romania on Tuesday when he announced a series of benefit restrictions on all EU migrant workers, including a ban on access to housing benefit for all new arrivals and a three-month ban before jobseeker’s allowance can be claimed.’
The Guardian, 27th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Upper Tribunal’s first consideration of monetary penalty notices by Julian Milford – Panopticon
‘Upper Tribunal has just issued judgment in Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust v Information Commissioner [2013] UKUT 0551. This significant decision is the first time the Upper Tribunal has considered an appeal against a monetary penalty notice (“MPN”), issued by the Commissioner under section 55A Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”).’
Panopticon, 21st November 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
Emma Way: Driver in #bloodycyclists Twitter storm convicted after knocking cyclist off bike – The Independent
“A 22-year-old woman who posted about ‘bloody cyclists’ on Twitter hours after knocking a cyclist off his bike has been convicted of failing to stop and failing to report an accident, but cleared of driving without due care and attention at Norfolk Magistrates Court today.”
The Independent, 19th November 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Justice Committee calls for “more meaningful” penalties for companies convicted of financial crime – OUT-LAW.com
“Fines handed to companies convicted of fraud or other financial crimes should be calculated as a percentage of turnover, rather than with reference to the amount of financial harm caused, a committee of MPs has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th November 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
