“It is easy to argue that social media render the contempt laws unworkable. The challenge is to make current restrictions work.”
The Guardian, 28th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Today, I am talking with Sean Jones QC of 11 KBW, a leading employment and public law set. We look at the employment law implications for use of social media in some depth and discuss the important case of Smith v Trafford Housing Trust [2012] EWHC 3221 (Ch).
We then move on to discuss practice at the Bar, the immediate to medium term prospects for barristers and Sean Jones QC provides some advice for prospective barristers.”
Charon QC, 27th November 2012
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“The identification of Lord McAlpine on various Twitter accounts, notwithstanding the fact that he was not actually named on BBC’s Newsnight, is yet another example of the unrestrained power of social media in the internet age.”
The Guardian, 27th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“UK internet TV provider YouView has been sued for trademark infringement in a dispute over the product’s name.”
BBC News, 26th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“When exercising its discretion as to whether to grant an order for the disclosure of information, which included the disclosure of personal data about identifiable individuals, the court was not confined to weighing the impact of the disclosure on the individuals concerned against the value to the claimant of obtaining the information, but was entitled have regard to other relevant factors including the strong public interest in allowing a claimant to vindicate his legal rights and whether the making of the order would deter similar wrongdoing in the future.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Internet service providers (ISPs) will decide whether libraries, cafes and other public Wi-Fi network providers should be served with letters warning them that their service is being used to infringe copyright, Ofcom’s head of copyright has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A website operator must disclose the names and addresses of people who used the site to trade rugby tickets after the Supreme Court said that doing so would not be a disproportionate infringement of those individuals’ privacy rights.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Behavioural advertising networks will be subject to UK advertising rules from February next year, the advertising regulator has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Conservative peer Lord McAlpine has reached a £125,000 settlement with ITV and Phillip Schofield. It is in relation to a This Morning programme broadcast in November during which the presenter handed the prime minister a list of names of alleged abusers he had found on the internet.”
BBC News, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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The First Annual BAILII Lecture, 20th November 2012
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
“Fewer than one in four UK internet users that engaged in copyright infringing activity during a three month period earlier this year said they would be put off from repeating the offence if they knew they would receive a letter to tell them that their internet access was to be suspended as a result of the behaviour, according to a new study commissioned by Ofcom.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Users of the social networking site Twitter who wrongly linked Tory peer, Lord McAlpine, with the North Wales care home child abuse scandal, are bracing themselves for a barrage of lawsuits.”
The Independent, 19th November 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Media lawyer Amber Melville-Brown explains why careless Tweeting of Lord McAlpine’s name could prove expensive for those who publish and repeat libellous remarks.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The nature of messages posted on social media platforms and not how many people read those comments should determine whether public prosecutors pursue legal action against those that breach UK communications laws, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will investigate the use of ‘personalised pricing’ in a bid to discover if the practice treats consumers fairly.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A man who raped a 12-year-old girl from Hampshire after posing online as a teenage girl, has been jailed for 14 years and four months.”
BBC News, 14th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“YouView, the much-delayed internet-connected TV service that finally launched earlier this year, may now have to change its name or face paying damages for trademark infringement after losing a high court appeal.”
The Guardian, 14th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who put his cat in a tumble drier and posted the footage on YouTube has been jailed.”
The Independent, 13th November 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Twitter account holders with few followers could escape prosecution for posting ‘grossly offensive’ messages as part of an attempt to protect free speech online, under new guidelines being developed by Britain’s most senior prosecutor.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Appeal judges have overturned an order banning a voyeur from surfing the internet, saying it is ‘entirely unreasonable’ for anyone to be denied web access in today’s Britain.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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