‘Prince Harry has been told that he and fellow claimants taking legal action against the Daily Mail publishers must not spend more than £4.1m on costs – around £14m less than they were proposing.’
The Independent, 24th January 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘This comment considers the decision of the Divisional Court in DPP v Cobban, looking at the application of s 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and the compatibility with Articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR. The comment argues that the decision is significant in imposing a criminal restriction to uphold standards of propriety in relation to a closed conversation between consenting adults. The comment also questions whether the reach of the decision can be limited to a context that involves police officers. The decision points to the limited protection of expression rights and highlights the ongoing problems of s 127 in applying a standard of gross offence in a speech crime.’
Journal of Media Law, 10th January 2025
Source: www.tandfonline.com
‘The UK’s data protection regulator has asked banks, telecommunications providers and digital platforms to share personal information responsibly to protect their customers from scams and fraud, and clarified that data protection law is not an excuse for failing to do so.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th November 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Emojis play a significant part in digital communications, including casual messaging, social media posts, and increasingly, professional communications. When we are reviewing historical messages, understanding what the emojis were intended to mean could become an essential part of identifying what was discussed and/or agreed at that time.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 15th November 2024
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘Social media companies will face punishments for failing to keep children safe on their platforms, communications watchdog Ofcom has warned.’
BBC News, 17th October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Calls are growing to ban smartphones in schools in England by law, as education experts and unions back an MP’s attempt to push a new law through Parliament.’
BBC News, 15th October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The UK advertising watchdog has cracked down on marketing campaigns by telecoms companies including BT, EE, Virgin Media and O2 for misleading consumers about price rises added to their bills during their contracts.’
The Guardian, 9th October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘As push payment fraud balloons, a scheme is coming into force to help those tricked by criminals’ increasingly sophisticated tactics.’
The Guardian, 7th October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A recent Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling and subsequent Office of Communications (Ofcom) guidance serves as a reminder to UK telecommunications providers on standards for advertising technology superiority claims and comparative advertising, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 24th September 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A British police special enquiry team is examining allegations that Will Lewis, now the chief executive of the Washington Post, presided over the deliberate destruction of emails at Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper business when he worked for the company 13 years ago.’
The Guardian , 31st July 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A recent landmark decision may allow novel and unusual methods of service in welcome news for landowners who seek to prevent trespassing by persons unknown.’
Gatehouse Chambers, 15th July 2024
Source: gatehouselaw.co.uk
‘BT has been fined more than £17m for missing 14,000 emergency calls after technical faults caused the emergency call handling service to be disrupted for nearly 11 hours last summer.’
The Guardian, 22nd July 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Phone companies, broadband providers and subscription TV services will be banned from imposing inflation-linked price increases in the middle of contracts from next year, the telecoms regulator has confirmed.’
The Guardian, 19th July 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An “intrusive” request for an Irwin Mitchell partner’s personal phone has been rejected by a judge in disclosure talks ahead of a negligence claim.’
Law Society's Gazette, 9th July 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Despite concerns having been voiced internationally about the validity and reliability of mobile phone evidence, there remain large gaps in our understanding of how police acquire and process mobile phone data, and the risks associated with this work. This paper fills some of these gaps by drawing upon qualitative data gathered during an ethnographic study of the role of forensic sciences and technologies in British homicide investigations. Specifically, we draw upon case papers, interviews, and observations to illuminate, from the perspective of police and prosecution actors, some of the opportunities, tensions, and risks encountered in accessing and processing mobile phone data during these inquiries. Our findings reveal several risks associated with current practice alongside broader complexities related to legislation, privatisation, and accreditation. We consider how these intertwined risks and challenges may undermine the reliability of mobile phone evidence and jeopardise criminal justice.’
Policing and Society, 25th June 2024
Source: www.tandfonline.com
‘A court has rejected a bid by a prominent UK businessman to force a gardening company he engaged with to disclose the identity of people given access to recordings of conversations he had with the gardening company’s owner.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th June 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Social media platforms have been told to take action to stop pushing harmful content to children with algorithms, Ofcom has said.’
The Guardian, 8th May 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The police are discounting threatening and insulting text messages as a form of domestic abuse with tens of thousands of incident records estimated to be missing. The Domestic Abuse Commissioner warned almost 17,600 domestic abuse crimes are missing from data released on Thursday due to the government overhauling the rules on how the police should record incidents.’
The Independent, 26th April 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The UK’s terror watchdog has criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for lowering the minimum age for WhatsApp users from 16 to 13, warning that the “extraordinary” move could expose more teenagers to extreme content.’
The Guardian, 18th April 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
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