‘The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has paused the progress of a class action against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, amid concerns over the validity of the methodology used to calculate potential damages.’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st March 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A woman who tried to hire a hitman to kill a former work colleague after a fling has been found guilty of soliciting murder.’
BBC News, 8th February 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The widespread use of online source Wikipedia by senior judges could mean fake information spreading, leading to bad judgments, an update of research first revealed last year has warned.’
Legal Futures, 8th February 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A Church of England priest who shared “virulently antisemitic” material has been barred from ministry for 12 years.’
BBC News, 30th January 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A debt recovery firm is taking legal action against the review website Trustpilot in relation to 20 different reviews left which include allegations of fraud and harassment.’
Law Society's Gazette, 27th January 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The National Archives (TNA), which took over as the immediate online publisher of senior court judgments last year, failed to publish judgments in over a quarter of cases in its first three months of operation, a report has found.’
Legal Futures, 24th January 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Tech executives whose platforms persistently fail to protect children from online harm will face criminal charges after ministers reached a deal with Conservative backbenchers.’
The Guardian, 16th January 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Performers and creators are making a “pitiful” amount of money from streaming their music online, MPs have said. Musicians should receive a fairer share of revenues and there should be a “complete reset” of the streaming market, according to the digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) committee.’
The Independent, 23rd January 2023
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is to take a “more robust approach” to enforcing its transparency rules after its latest work indicated widespread non-compliance.’
Legal Futures, 20th December 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A police control room worker who shared an image of a teenager’s decapitated head with his partner and friends on WhatsApp has been jailed for more than two years.’
The Independent, 14th December 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The government has backed a private members bill that will allow lasting powers of attorney to be made completely online. The Lasting Power of Attorney Bill, which brings forward government proposals to modernise the process, completed its second reading last Friday.’
Law Society's Gazette, 13th December 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The right to be forgotten – remember that? It isn’t often the subject of litigation, in the UK at least: uncertainty about outcomes is probably a significant reason why parties usually opt not to put their disputes before the courts. Last week’s judgment of the Grand Chamber of the CJEU in TU and RE v Google LLC (Case C‑460/20) won’t remove uncertainty about judicial approaches to such cases, but it does shed helpful light on some common elements of disputes under Article 17 (UK) GDPR.’
Panopticon, 12th December 2022
Source: panopticonblog.com
‘An electrician who shared videos online of himself raping a young girl he had drugged has been jailed.’
The Independent, 8th December 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Bereaved families are calling for easier access to the social media histories of deceased children, supporting amendments to the online safety bill.’
The Guardian, 5th December 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The online safety bill, the government’s flagship internet regulation, returns to parliament on Monday, after a five-month delay prompted by Conservative party factional warfare threatened to kill it off.’
The Guardian, 5th December 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Last week the Government announced that it will update the Online Safety Bill to include the Law Commission’s recommendation to make encouraging or assisting serious self-harm an offence.’
Law Commission, 29th November 2022
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
‘A High Court judge has been asked to decide whether a teenager who suffered brain damage after an “apparent suicide attempt” can lawfully be allowed to die.’
The Independent, 1st December 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The fact that fewer than 10% of claimants use the Official Injury Claim (OIC) portal without legal representation does not mean the system has failed to deliver, the government said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 30th November 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Online Safety Bill approaches free speech from a different context. If “democratic functioning” covers one side of the “freedom of speech coin”, then the other-side is illustrated by the tragic death of Molly Russell. Molly was a teenager who died of self-harm following the negative effects of online content, a recent investigation has concluded. This is the perspective from which the Online Safety Bill seeks to impose obligations on social media sites to protect users from harmful content.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th November 2022
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Controversial measures which would have forced big technology platforms to take down legal but harmful material have been axed from the Online Safety Bill.’
BBC News, 29th November 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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