“Recent cases have highlighted disturbing instances of racial abuse on Twitter, and some footballers and celebrities are leaving the site after becoming targets.”
The Guardian, 27th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A student who mocked footballer Fabrice Muamba on Twitter after he collapsed during a match could be jailed for inciting racial hatred.”
The Guardian, 27th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The family of a Sheffield student who faces extradition to the United States has confirmed an appeal has been lodged by lawyers.”
BBC News, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
G v de Visser (Case C-292/10); [2012] WLR (D) 87
“Where it was impossible to locate the whereabouts of a defendant, European Union law did not preclude the issue of judgment by default in circumstances where the document instituting proceedings had been served by public notice under national law, provided that the court seised of the matter had first satisfied itself that all investigations required by the principles of diligence and good faith had been undertaken to trace the defendant.”
WLR Daily, 15th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A law student who bombarded the football commentator Stan Collymore with racist tweets has been sentenced to two years’ community service and ordered to pay £150 legal costs.”
The Guardian, 21st March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The supreme court’s unanimous decision in Flood v Times Newspapers, handed down on Wednesday, gives some comfort to the media in what are otherwise gloomy times for journalists when the reputation of the news gathering and reporting trade, mid-Leveson inquiry, is hanging by a thread and the threat of statutory regulation looms large.”
The Guardian, 21st March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Those registering ‘.uk’ domain names are not entitled to a fresh hearing in court to assess whether they have abusively registered those domains if the issue has already been determined through an industry dispute resolution service, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“No sooner had HLE published a post on the joke (in every sense) trial of Paul Chambers than another story appears which leaves one wondering how many in officialdom have even heard of free speech, let alone understood it.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 20th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“As Henry Ward Beecher once said: ‘A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road.’ The law has currently been jolted by one such pebble, the case of Paul Chambers and an ill-advised tweet that is under consideration by the High Court.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 13th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Home Secretary Theresa May has approved the extradition to the US of a student accused of copyright infringement.”
BBC News, 13th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The online infringement copyright provisions contained in sections 124A to 124N of the Communications Act 2003, as inserted, were not incompatible with European Union law.”
WLR Daily, 6th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A Mars marketing campaign has been cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in its first investigation involving Twitter.”
BBC News, 7th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Internet service providers (ISPs) and other “online intermediaries” could be forced to act as go-betweens in defamation disputes on the internet in a bid to resolve cases before they reach court, the Government has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“BT and Talk Talk have lost an appeal over controversial measures to tackle copyright infringement online.”
BBC News, 6th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Google was not responsible for allegedly defamatory comments posted on its blogging platform because it could not be said to be a publisher of the information, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A ‘deceptive and deceitful’ woman who disguised herself as a boy to date female Facebook friends has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 5th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ex-New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns, who is suing a former Indian Premier League boss over a Twitter posting, will have his case heard by the High Court today in the latest example of libel tourism.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former Tory local council candidate has failed in his libel action against Google over comments posted about him on a blog.Payam Tamiz started legal proceedings against Google after allegedly defamatory comments were written about him on the London Muslim section of Blogger.com.Google argued that it had no control over any of the content and had no way of knowing whether the comments posted were true or not. In a written judgement handed down at the high court on Friday, Mr Justice Eady said Google should not be regarded as a publisher under the established principles of the common law.”
The Guardian, 2nd March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A damages claim by Manchester United and Wales footballer Ryan Giggs against the Sun newspaper has been thrown out by a High Court judge.”
BBC News, 2nd March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Gul: [2012] EWCA Crim 280; [2012] WLR (D) 44
“Acts by insurgents against the armed forces of a state anywhere in the world which sought to influence a government and were made for political purposes were acts of terrorism for the purposes of section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000. There was nothing in international law which required the clear terms of the 2000 Act to be read down to exempt those committing such acts from the definition of terrorist in that Act.”
WLR Daily, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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