‘The European Commission must publish documents containing information about the UK’s communications surveillance operations or “properly justify” its reasons not to do so, an EU watchdog has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Police will be banned from accessing reporter phone logs under the powers of Ripa unless they can show it is for serious crime.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A police force has been criticised for “weaknesses and shortcomings” in the way it handled fears raised by a stalking victim before she was shot dead by her estranged husband.’
The Guardian, 29th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Exclusive pricing deals between car insurance providers and price comparison websites (PCWs) will be banned, the UK’s competition watchdog has confirmed, as part of its plans to increase competition and reduce the cost of insurance premiums for drivers.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th September 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘One of the Conservative MPs who was contacted by a Sunday Mirror reporter posing as a woman interested in sex is to write to the Metropolitan police over the tabloid sting. Mark Pritchard said he would contact Scotland Yard and make a formal complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) over accusations of entrapment.’
The Guardian, 29th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘How much booze is too much? The UK’s financial ombudsman has revealed that some insurers are unfairly accusing their customers of alcohol abuse, or labelling them alcoholics, even though medical evidence showed they only had one or two drinks.’
The Guardian, 23rd September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The UK’s data protection authority needs to rethink its strategy for combatting failings in mobile apps privacy, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 12th September 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Penal reformers say there is an urgent need to determine the nature and scale of sexual abuse in prisons in England and Wales in the wake of estimates that hundreds of inmates are being raped or sexually assaulted every year.’
The Guardian, 15th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Three of the four big high street bookmakers have signed up to a new voluntary watchdog in the hope of preempting a raft of tough statutory measures that threaten the prevalence of betting shops, high-speed roulette machines and aggressive punter-recruitment adverts promising “free money”.’
The Guardian, 15th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An investigation into abuse at a children’s care home has been widened to include other establishments.’
BBC News, 12th September 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Ofsted warns that reforms designed to prevent school leavers becoming NEETs – not in education, employment or training – merely end up “delaying their fall” into the category at a later stage.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th September 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The chairman of a new press self-regulation body set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal says he wants to show critics it is not a “fake”.’
BBC News, 8th September 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sky News is to be investigated by the media regulator for broadcasting images of one of its presenters handling a passenger’s belongings at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site.’
The Guardian, 18th August 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Failings in the prison service are leaving “vulnerable and isolated” young people at risk from suicide and self-harm, the Prison Ombudsman has concluded.’
The Independent, 12th August 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A young father died after police failed to notice him having three epileptic seizures in custody, it has emerged.
The Independent, 8th August 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Complaints over an advert showing Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue and a bikini-clad woman have been upheld by the advertising watchdog.’
BBC News, 6th August 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Electoral Commission is refusing to apologise after a watchdog ruled it had failed to properly investigate a Lib Dem donor later convicted of fraud.’
BBC news, 17th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Failing care homes will be put on “special measures” and closed down if they fail to improve, under new powers given to watchdogs in the wake of a series of scandals.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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