“Paul Chambers’s conviction shows the law’s difficulties in discriminating between tones of voice in emails, tweets and texts.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet threatening to blow up an airport has won a challenge against his conviction.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A person who entered into betting transactions on an Internet betting exchange in the course of his business was not a bookmaker for the purposes of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963.”
WLR Daily, 20th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet after making a joke about blowing up an airport is to learn the outcome of his challenge against conviction.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“More than 2,000 O2 customers will receive letters accusing them of illegally downloading porn films.”
BBC News, 24th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 19-year-old man convicted of murdering a teenager as she babysat her sister’s two children in Hertfordshire has been given a life sentence.”
BBC News, 25th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Several leading UK internet service providers have refused to sign a code of conduct designed to guarantee ‘full and open access’ to the net.”
BBC News, 25th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The former girlfriend of Premier League striker Gabby Agbonlahor has escaped a prison sentence for harassing his current partner for four years.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A major UK internet service provider’s (ISP’s) claim that it could offer a ‘totally unlimited broadband’ service to customers was not misleading, despite the fact the service would contain ‘inherent limitations’, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A company can be liable for unwanted comments made on the Facebook account of an employee by colleagues, providing that the actions ‘fall within the course of employment’, an employment tribunal has found.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Serial bride who met and married her third husband through a Muslim dating site was jailed for eight years for planning to launch a terrorist attack upon Jewish communities in Manchester.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“‘Flash incarceration’ of offenders who breach court orders, widespread naming online of those convicted, more witnesses giving evidence via videolink and Sunday court sittings are among measures outlined in government plans to speed up justice.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The police have wrongly accused and detained two people in separate cases as a result of mistakes made in the disclosure of their personal communications data, a watchdog has revealed.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Parliamentary committee is seeking views on Government plans to expand existing laws on communications surveillance.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A Rio Ferdinand tweet shows there’s a difference in attitude on social media when it comes to some fundamental principles of our judicial process.”
The Guardian, 9th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The home secretary, Theresa May, has told the House of Commons that she will not revisit plans to extradite Sheffield Hallam student Richard O’Dwyer to the US on copyright charges, saying the decision had ‘already been taken’.”
The Guardian, 9th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Content Services Ltd v Bundesarbeitskammer (Case C-49/11); [2012] WLR (D) 195
“Article 5(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 97/7/EC of 20 May 1997 on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts meant that a business practice which made the information referred to in that provision accessible to the consumer only via a hyperlink on a website did not meet the requirements of the Directive, since that information was neither ‘given’ by that undertaking nor ‘received’ by the consumer and was not a ‘durable medium’.”
WLR Daily, 5th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Joint Committee is a committee of both Houses appointed to conduct pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Communications Data Bill. Inquiry Status: The Committee has issued a Call for Evidence, which asks for submissions by 23 August 2012.”
Joint Committee on the Draft Communications Data Bill, 5th July 2012
Source: www.parliament.uk
“OPINION: The UK Government is considering reform of copyright laws in the wake of the Hargreaves Review. One change that it must make when reforming copyright law is to make it clear that the act of web browsing does not require permission from copyright holders.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Anti-piracy agreement rejected by European Parliament, but Acta could be revived by European Commission.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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