BBC article on the tatical retreat the current UK government has had to pull, after its plans for a 42 day detention were defeated by the House of Lords.
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Barbara Gordon
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Barbara Gordon
The debate on the counter-terrorism bill can watched on the Parliament video and audio page. Either live or from the start. The debate session started at 2:58pm.
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Barbara Gordon
Max Mosley has applied to the European Court of Human Rights in an attempt to reform the UK’s privacy laws by forcing UK newspaper editors to tell people when they are going to publish stories about them.
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Barbara Gordon
Oxford and Cambridge are to release lectures via iTunes.
Oxford University says it will publish 150 hours of video and audio material of lectures and ideas from “world-leading thinkers”.
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Barbara Gordon
Two cases of interest: man wins libel case over false Facebook profile and Max Mosley wins privacy case against News of the World.
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neilstewart
Geoffrey Robertson makes a strong case against the use of anonymous witnesses in criminal trials.
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Barbara Gordon
A UK patent lawyer has released a free study guide for the Patents Acts. He plans to update it frequently and suggests donations to charity if you find it useful.
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Barbara Gordon
Leeds man named ‘dumbest criminal’ [Outlaw] “A Leeds man has had to be restrained by an ASBO from posting evidence of his own anti-social behaviour online. Andrew Kellett, 23, has been given the order to stop him posting films of his exploits on YouTube.” Future Darwin award winner, perhaps?
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Barbara Gordon
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Barbara Gordon
UK government wants a phone call and email database. Worlds of bad!
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Barbara Gordon
In excellent news: Information Commissioner gets power to fine for privacy breaches
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Barbara Gordon
The ICLR seventh annual lecture looks pretty good this year: How the common law gets made: Hedley Byrne and other cautionary tales (link goes to pdf)
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Barbara Gordon
The ban on ‘extreme’ internet porn has been made law.
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Barbara Gordon
Banks lose overdraft charges case. That whooshing sound you hear is the request for an appeal…
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Barbara Gordon
Mosley injunction against News of the World publishing video footage of his ‘orgy’ fails.
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Barbara Gordon
Westminster Council secures the copyright to the iconic red and black street signs.
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Barbara Gordon
An update to this post, the man involved in the UK’s first Facebook Harassment case has been cleared. (Although, advised not to contact his ex again.)
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jennielaw
My trawling of the interwebs continues – another post with more UK library bloggers. I’m going to eventually sort them into one nice list somewhere and continue to add to it as I find more bloggers.
Of course, I’ve not listed any of us UK law librarians yet!
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jennielaw
Full details of the McCartney divorce decision will be made public, as Heather Mills has lost her appeal to keep the details confidential.
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jennielaw
I spent a couple of hours trawling Google Blogs, pulled together all the UK library blogs I could find, and listed them on my blog.
Someone, get me a life, please!!!
