“The chief executive of media regulator Ofcom wants to expand his office’s powers with new laws that would make its programming sanctions as powerful as its advertising ones.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th January 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Employees who left a company to start up a rival breached that firm’s database rights when they took information with them, the High Court has ruled. The firm failed to prove, though, that the actions breached the company’s confidentiality.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th January 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A senior sales executive who was told by her employer that she would be ‘useless’ after she became pregnant could receive up to £200,000 after winning her sex discrimination claim.”
The Times, 8th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Copying compact discs on to computers or iPods will become legal for the first time under government proposals to be published on Tuesday in a move that the music industry has warned could ‘open the floodgates’ to further filesharing.”
Financial Times, 8th January 2008
Source: www.ft.com
“Householders will get the right to use force to defend their homes against burglars. MPs will debate an amendment tomorrow that seeks to clarify the law so that people can use ‘reasonable’ force without fear of being prosecuted.”
The Times, 8th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Drivers who kill could escape being sent to jail under new sentencing guidelines for the courts.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Briton on death row for 21 years in Ohio is expected to return home tomorrow a free man, amid serious concern over his long-term health.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two sex offenders are to be ‘chemically castrated’ to stop them reoffending.”
The Times, 7th January 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A journalist has been refused the right under freedom of information laws to receive a list of anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) recipients because disclosure of a person’s name long after the award of an ASBO is not the same as disclosure at the time.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th January 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, will unveil plans for a new crime crackdown, only hours after the latest stabbing of a teenage boy.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“‘Deactivated’ guns, which can easily be reconverted into active firearms for use in crime, will be outlawed, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith promised yesterday.”
The Independent, 7th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The wife of actor Chris Langham says her husband paid ‘a monumental price’ for downloading footage of child abuse.”
BBC News, 6th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Scottish man who has spent 20 years on death row in America is set to attend an appeal hearing which should see him return to the UK immediately.”
BBC News, 7th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Charity says asylum backlog is forcing 110,000 children into ‘horrifying’ lives of fear and poverty.”
The Guardian, 6th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The cost to the taxpayer of abandoned Whitehall computer projects since 2000 has reached almost £2bn – not including the bill for an online crime reporting site that was cancelled this week, a survey by the Guardian reveals.”
The Guardian, 5th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who spent most of his life living on Anglesey is being deported to the Philippines for breaching an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo).”
BBC News, 7th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“British UFO ‘sightings’ investigated by a secret branch of the MoD are soon to be revealed and officials are braced for a torrent of inquiries.”
The Guardian, 6th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A range of complementary therapies such as homeopathy and aromatherapy are to be regulated by a new body.”
BBC News, 5th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Reclassifying cannabis would be pointless and therefore unlikely to make any difference to young users of the drug, according to a new report by some of the country’s top criminal policy experts.”
The Independent, 7th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“New rules for carry-on luggage that have come in at some UK airports could confuse passengers, a lobby group says.”
BBC News, 7th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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