“On 2 November, Newsnight broadcast what are now known to be mistaken claims by former care home resident Steve Messham that he had been sexually abused by a prominent 1980s Conservative politician.”
BBC News, 13th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A sales adviser who made a series of depraved sexual comments about five-year-old April Jones on Facebook has been given a suspended prison sentence.”
The Guardian, 7th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nine people have been fined after admitting to revealing online the identity of a woman raped by the footballer Ched Evans.”
The Guardian, 5th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Media lawyers Niri Shan and Lorna Caddy explain why commenting on Twitter and Facebook is no longer the same as a chat down the pub.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A sixth form pupil accused of hacking into his school computer system and attempting to do it again two months later has been found guilty.”
BBC News, 2nd November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“BSkyB has won a high court trademark battle over the name of its new internet TV service, Now TV.”
The Guardian, 2nd November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“When you are speaking to someone face to face you are free to say something grossly offensive to them, or even to shout it out so that anyone within earshot can hear. It’s not a crime. Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 states that it doesn’t matter whether you let loose your volley of invective in front of someone who is likely to be insulted by it, or even offended by it, provided they are not likely to have been caused harassment, alarm or distress.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 2nd November 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.com
Cairns v Modi; KC v MGN Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1382; [2012] WLR (D) 302
“When breaking down the details of an award of damages in a defamation case there was no need to introduce a more analytical reasoning process founded on the three broad bands of compensation for injury to feelings in the context of sex and race discrimination cases.”
WLR Daily, 31st October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The home secretary, Theresa May, has been told by peers and MPs that her £1.8bn internet monitoring proposals will be a ‘honeypot for hackers and criminals around the world’ and that she must bring in prison sentences for those who hack databases.”
The Guardian, 31st October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The advertising watchdog will launch a crackdown next year on businesses that run misleading internet ads that rip off consumers.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“New powers to snoop on all emails, web visits and phone calls could still be used to combat minor crimes despite Government assurances, the watchdog who oversees them has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Virgin Media and BT are taking legal action against Birmingham city council over the use of public money to build a broadband network that directly competes with their own.”
The Guardian, 21st October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The CPS has extended its series of roundtables on prosecuting cases involving social media to include one in November with representatives invited from the FA, the England and Wales Cricket Board, the British Olympic Association and the Rugby Football Union.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 19th October 2012
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
“Joshua Rozenberg asks where next for the families of those who died at Hillsborough.”
BBC Law in Action, 16th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A new cross-government website Gov.uk has launched making it quicker and easier for you to interact with the government online.”
Ministry of Justice, 17th October 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“An 18-year-old man who stabbed a 64-year-old widower 72 times in his bungalow after meeting him on a website has been jailed for life for murder.”
BBC News, 16th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Plans to monitor all Britons’ online activity risk uncovering ‘incompetent criminals and accidental anarchists’ rather than serious offenders, the information commissioner has warned.”
BBC News, 16th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Today I am talking to John Cooper QC. The DPP is holding a series of round table meetings to consider where the law should be in relation to online social media spoken and written. Rather strangely – while the DPP invited lawyers who have been involved in recent high profile cases and some lawyers who weren’t even peripherally involved – Keir Starmer QC did not extend an invitation to leading criminal silk John Copper QC who actually led the team in the celebrated Paul Chambers Twitterjoketrial case – which the team won.”
Charon QC, 10th October 2012
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“A 12-week prison sentence given to a man who posted offensive comments on Facebook about missing April Jones and Madeleine McCann has been criticised by legal commentators as disproportionate. But are judges and magistrates out of touch when it comes to social media?”
BBC News, 10th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The director of public prosecutions is exploring whether Facebook and Twitter should take more responsibility for policing their networks for abuse and harassment in an attempt to reduce the number of cases coming to court.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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