“A new deal to stop an estimated 100,000 stolen mobile phones, worth around £4m, being sold to recycling companies was announced today by crime prevention minister James Brokenshire.”
Home Office, 23rd July 2010
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Crime gangs rake in up to £4 million a year by flogging ‘recycled’ stolen mobile phones overseas. Officials revealed crooks have been giving blocked mobile phones a second lease of life by exporting them. Police said the phones still work abroad and up to 100,000 handsets worth an average of £40 each are resold on the black market. The Government, police and mobile phone industry joined forces today to sign an agreement designed to close the loophole.”
The Independent, 23rd July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Government will review the use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), the law that governs state tapping of phone, email and internet use. The law will be looked at as part of a wider review of counter-terrorism laws.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th July 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Home Secretary has announced today that a rapid review of key counter-terrorism and security powers is underway. The review will look at what counter-terrorism powers and measures could be rolled back in order to restore the balance of civil liberties and counter-terrorism powers.”
Home Office, 13th July 2010
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The government is to review key counter-terrorism and security powers including the 28-day limit on detaining terrorist suspects without charge.”
BBC News, 13th July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“How much of BT’s huge pension liabilities are underwritten by the taxpayer? Nearly 26 years after one of Margaret Thatcher’s biggest privatisations, the telecoms firm’s pensioners are finally close to getting an answer.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“BT and TalkTalk are seeking a judicial review of the controversial Digital Economy Act, BBC News has learned.”
BBC News, 8th July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Small ISPs, mobile operators and Wi-Fi providers like hotels and coffee shops will be exempt from a notification and blacklisting process under the Digital Economy Act, at least initially, according to a draft Code published by Ofcom.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Lists of Britons who infringe copyright are to be drawn up by the UK’s biggest ISPs, under proposals from the regulator Ofcom.”
BBC News, 28th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Telco Talk Talk has restated its pledge to take music and film companies to court if they try to use parts of the just-passed Digital Economy Act. It said it will not hand over any customer details without a court order.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th April 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Internet users are still not getting the broadband speeds promised by internet service providers, more than a year after the industry signed up to a voluntary code of practice, forcing Ofcom to threaten mandatory regulation.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Bridgewater Canal Company Ltd v GEO Networks Ltd [2010] EWHC 548 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 85
“The consideration payable, pursuant to para 13(2)(e)(ii) of Sch 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984, as amended by the Communications Act 2003, by an operator of a communications network to a person with control of land for the right to carry out work undertaken pursuant to the provisions of the Electronic Communications Code, as contained in Sch 2 to the 1984, as amended, included payment to reflect not only the right to carry out the works but also for the right to retain the works on the land once the works themselves had been completed.”
WLR Daily, 22nd March 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Mobile firm O2 has stepped into the row over thousands of controversial letters that are being sent to alleged illegal file-sharers in the UK.”
BBC News, 17th March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The News of the World phone-hacking scandal took a fresh twist yesterday as it emerged that Britain’s second most senior law officer is to examine concerns of collusion between the newspaper and police.”
The Independent, 14th March 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The News of the World was tonight (9 March) accused of buying silence in the phone-hacking scandal after it agreed to pay more than £1m to persuade the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to drop his legal action over the interception of his voicemail messages.”
The Guardian, 9th March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Press Complaints Commission’s actions over the phone-hacking controversy has weakened its credibility’ and ‘revealed major failings in its mandate and its ways of operating’, according to an independent report.”
The Guardian, 1st March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government is planning to close a loophole in the law that makes it legal to hack into someone else’s voicemail messages if they have already been listened to by the owner.”
The Guardian, 25th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“What the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee report says about Andy Coulson, the information commissioner, the police and the PCC.”
The Guardian, 24th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The News of the World is believed to be planning to settle a court case which threatens to disclose further evidence of the involvement of its journalists in illegal information-gathering by private investigators. According to one source at the paper, executives have devised a plan to block the case by offering money to the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to persuade him to settle his legal action over the illegal interception of his voicemail messages.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Labour breached privacy rules by making unsolicited automated phone calls to almost half a million people without their consent, the Information Commissioner’s Office has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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