The new Easter legal term begins this week on Tuesday 18 April 2023 and finishes on Friday 26 May 2023. Continue reading
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The Hilary Legal Term ends on Wednesday 5 April 2023. The new term, Easter, begins on 18 April 2023 and finishes on 26 May 2023. Continue reading
Football pundit Gary Lineker has returned to live presenting of the BBC’s football coverage after a temporary suspension while he was investigated for breaching impartiality rules. Lineker was told to step back from hosting Match Of The Day last week after he published a tweet criticising a new government migrant policy. Continue reading
The Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill was reintroduced into Parliament this week. The bill reforms provisions relating to automated decision making, makes changes to the obligations of data controllers and processors and amends the existing law relating to international transfers of personal data. Continue reading
A loyal reader has pointed out that the Inforrm Blog missed its own thirteenth birthday (and transition into being a teenager), on 22 January 2023. We will take this opportunity to remind readers that we have now been publishing for over 13 years. Continue reading
On 27 February 2023, judgment was handed down in FGX v Gaunt [2023] EWHC 419 (KB) by Thornton J, thought to be the first civil case on intimate-image abuse (commonly referred to as “revenge porn”) of its kind. Continue reading
Unveiling the report of last autumn’s Conduct in Disputes Thematic Review (the report), SRA chief executive Paul Philip said that some firms needed to do more and that the regulator would be redoubling its efforts to make sure its message on SLAPPs (strategic litigation against public participation) got through. This sentiment is as disappointing as it is predictable. But Philip’s statement seems to be at odds with what should have been the report’s core finding: namely that talk of SLAPPS is greatly exaggerated. Continue reading
The encrypted-messaging app Signal has said that it will stop providing its services in the UK if the Online Safety Bill undermined the privacy of its messaging system, BBC reports. Critics say the law may require companies to scan encrypted messages for unlawful material. However, the government stated the bill is not a ban on end-to-end encryption and emphasised its importance for securing the safety of children online. Continue reading
BBC offices in India have been raided by tax department officials just weeks after the release of a documentary critical of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, which was blocked by the government. The Guardian, BBC and Bloomberg cover the story. Continue reading
Barrister and President of Magadelen College, Oxford, Dinah Rose KC, is set to sue the Times for an article which quoted the Bar Standards Board as saying her interpretation of the “cab rank rule” might amount to recklessness, if taken at its highest. Continue reading
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