“A High Court judge has struck off three solicitors after ruling that a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal had been too lenient in punishing the trio.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 19th July 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Gambling Commission has publicly rejected a district judge’s suggestion in the recent Paddy Power case that primary gambling activity is an area solely for the watchdog, not licensing authorities.”
Local Governemtn Lawyer, 17th July 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“The High Court has ruled in favour of reallocating some fishing rights from big producers to small-scale fishermen.”
BBC News, 10th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The cost of practising as a solicitor is set to rise at a rate of more than four times inflation, if the Law Society’s council approves figures that will be put before it later this week.”
Legal Futures, 8th July 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“Dozens of countries are introducing legislation restricting the use of electronic cigarettes, but their proponents say they are harmless and their use could in fact save millions of lives. Could they be right?”
BBC News, 6th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Grey v Swansea City and County Council [2013] WLR (D) 260
“A public service vehicle could be ‘used on a road for carrying passengers for hire or reward’, within the terms of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981, even if it were not actually in motion on the road, and so failure to display the operator’s disc, which section 18 of the Act required to be fixed to and exhibited on the vehicle, on such a stationary vehicle could constitute a breach of statutory duty.”
WLR Daily, 27th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Electronic cigarettes are to be classed as ‘medicines’ under new proposals to tighten up the regulation of nicotine-containing products.”
The Guardian, 12th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The proliferation of betting shops in poorer areas has led to increasing crime and underage gambling, fuelled by high-speed, high stakes gambling machines, a court will hear on Monday.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Since the coming into force of the Provision of Services Regulations 2009 a local authority was not permitted, when determining the reasonable licence fee for sex establishments, to reflect in the fee which it determined the cost of enforcing the licensing system against unlicensed operators.”
WLR Daily, 24th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“With the recent debates about an in-out EU referendum rumbling on, the relationship between the UK and the EU is under continuing scrutiny. The political and economic issues of a withdrawal may take newspaper headlines, but the impact on Community trade marks and registered designs should not be forgotten either.”
Technology Law Update, 24th May 2013
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
“Outdoor weddings could become an option for thousands of couples, after the Government agreed to consider allowing groups, including humanists, to conduct legally-binding ceremonies in England and Wales.”
The Independent, 14th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Photographers and other rights holders will help define what constitutes a ‘diligent search’ for the author of copyrighted material as part of reforms to rules on ‘orphan works’ licensing, Out-Law.com has learned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK Supreme Court recently considered an interesting appeal in Public Relations Consultants Association Limited v The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited and others, concerning the status in copyright law of temporary copies of web pages held in an internet browser cache or on the screen of end users reading those pages.”
Technology Law Update, 26th April 2013
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
Supreme Court, 17th April 2013
“The UK supreme court has ruled that readers who open articles via a website link are not breaking the law, overturning the high court’s ruling that browsing was a breach of newspaper owners’ copyright.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Courts can calculate trade mark infringement damages based on a hypothetical licensing arrangement, the High Court has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Badger cruelty prosecutions have almost doubled in five years, according to new figures, as the RSPCA is accused of using the law to target huntsmen.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Privy Council, which will now be responsible for issuing a royal charter setting up a panel to vet the independence of a new press regulator, started licensing books in 1538. In 1557 a royal charter gave the members of the Stationers’ Company a monopoly of printing. In 1588 the anti-episcopal Marprelate Tracts (one of whose authors, John Penry, was executed for publishing them) provoked a system of press licensing which survived in one form or another, though with diminishing effect, until the last decade of the 17th century.”
London Review of Books, 11th April 2013
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
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