The Right to Access Environmental Information: An Analysis of UK law in the Context of European, International and Human Rights Law
Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technolog (Free subscription) | yesterday
ACS:Law says they’ll be given the “opportunity” to settle early and avoid having to deal with the matter in court. ACS:Law, a UK-based law firm that “specializes in assisting intellectual property rights holders exploit and enforce their rights globally,” has announced that on January 1st it plans to target some 15,000 accused illegal file-sharers across the UK. It’s...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... by al-Qaeda based overseas.” The Government is trying to deport him as a member of a “UK-based network involved in terrorist operational activity in the UK, most likely attack planning.” The ruling could also have an influence on the case of Abu Qatada, once described as Osama bin Laden’s “ambassador in Europe” who was released on bail and then re-arrested after...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... in a briefing for the Centre for Social Cohesion recently, the most active Awlaki promoters in the UK are a group called Cage Prisoners (CP), for whom Awlaki acts essentially as an emir (religious leader). Since 2003, CP has campaigned on behalf of convicted terrorists, presenting almost any Muslim in prison as a victim of the supposed war on Islam waged by the West. As well as Awlaki, CP support...
Wifinet (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
A pub in the UK that's part of The Cloud's network has been hit with £8,000 illegal download fine: ZDNet UK reports on some fragmentary information that a UK pub was hit with a fine in a civil case this last summer of £8,000 due to copyrighted material that was pirated over the pub's Wi-Fi network. The pieces don't entirely add up: it was a civil, not a criminal prosecution; UK law, like...
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The BBC reports that a UK law firm plans to file at least 15,000 legal demand letters earlier next year against people suspect of file sharing. The letters will threaten lawsuits but offer settlement terms of hundreds of pounds per person.
The Reference & Education Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
By Simon P Jennings If a country has no system, citizens could get out of control and undesired circumstances can take place as well. Hence, a system is constructed in any society to ensure the rights of every individual as being protected, and controlled, and that they all conduct according to the defined rules of the law. Professional negligence in the English system of law is treated under the section...
The BN Village (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Petition is here Petition to: oppose the adoption of the Codex Alimentarius (WHO/UN) proposals for restriction of the presently freely available herb/vitamin/mineral food supplements. | Number10.gov.uk (http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Vitamins/) ...now closed here is the response ......... There are no current or planned Codex Alimentarius proposals that require the UK to change the controls on vitamin...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
`The Christian Institute' Bureaucrats in Brussels think British churches have too much freedom to insist that their staff’s sexual conduct is in keeping with the Bible and are demanding a change to UK law. Officials at the European Commission have published a legal document, called a “reasoned opinion”, arguing that the UK Government needs to narrow the [...]
ParlourDesign (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Your web host is essentially the computer space that stores your website on their computer server, and then broadcasts this across the internet when people request it by typing in your domain name. Because of the nature of the internet, your .co.uk domain name for a UK company, could actually be hosted in Australia, and no-one would know the difference. It is normally good to have a UK company website...
Screenwerk (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The iPhone and its “paid apps” have created a culture that makes users more inclined than the general population to pay for content. As was widely reported last week UK law firm Olswang released findings from a consumer survey (in the UK, n=1,013) that showed iPhone users are more willing to pay for things than [...]
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
A recent survey has found that iPhone owners are more enthusiastic about paying for digital content than owners of other brands. The data from the Olswang Covergence Survey 2009, a UK law firm, revealed that 30 per cent of iPhone...
Tax Research UK (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... a much wider range of issues that relate to fundamental injustice and even illegality within the UK tax system. The concept of domicile, like so much in UK tax law, has no legal definition. Your domicile is, in effect, your natural home. It is not your place of citizenship, or your ethnicity, or even where you live: it is the place to which you owe your long-term affiliation. To put it another...
The Christian Institute (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Bureaucrats in Brussels think British churches have too much freedom to insist that their staff’s sexual conduct is in keeping with the Bible and are demanding a change to UK law. Officials at the European Commission have published a legal document, called a “reasoned opinion”, arguing that the UK Government needs to narrow the religious liberty [...]
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, both 25, want to challenge "discriminatory" UK laws which restrict civil partnerships to same-sex couples...
If Sam Tarran Was In Charge (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The new Supreme Court has ruled on its first 'big' case. This should have been a landmark in UK law, the first time the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, that cost a staggering £56.9 million, had been forced to step up to make a big decision. But no, it's role was purely to interpret a law created by an unelected and unaccountable assembly in Brussels. That's quite fitting, actually, considering...
