European Commission updates data export laws to take account of...
Under the EU’s Data Protection Directive, personal data cannot be transferred out of the European Economic Area unless there is adequate protection of the data. One way of ensuring adequate protection...
View ArticleEquality Act comes into force for service providers
The Equality Act 2010 has come into force with effect from 1 October. What that means for anyone providing a service (or goods or facilities) to the public or a section of the public (whether for...
View ArticleTime for TalkTalk and Tiscali to phone a friend…
Ofcom has ruled that TalkTalk and Tiscali have breached the General Conditions of Entitlement (which apply to all communications networks and service providers), which prohibit communications providers...
View ArticleOfcom decides no abuse of dominant position by BT
Ofcom has published its decision in relation to the investigation of BT and its pricing for residential broadband between June 2002 and December 2004. The investigation stemmed from an initial...
View ArticleChristian couple unfairly discriminated against gay couple wishing to stay in...
A hotel owning couple had strict rules based on their strong Christian values. They would not let guests other than married heterosexual couples share a double room. A gay couple who had a civil...
View ArticleThe Digital Economy Act – never far away from controversy
The Digital Economy Act is soon to be the subject of a judicial review. Now, in a somewhat contradictory move, the Government has both put its proposals for the workings of the Digital Economy Act...
View ArticleNew Bribery Act in force
The Bribery Act comes into force today. It is the biggest change to laws affecting business this year. It is a controversial piece of legislation because it is so wide-reaching. It creates the...
View ArticleQuestion of self-employed status must reflect actual position and not just...
People supplying or receiving services often want to know whether the situation is an employed or self-employed basis, as this can affect whether there are any employment rights, how readily the...
View ArticleBEREC publishes draft net neutrality guidelines
The Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) has published draft guidelines on how end users are to be informed about the way their Internet service is managed within the...
View ArticleImportance of exit and transition provisions considered by TCC – Astrazeneca...
Astrazeneca and IBM entered into an outsourcing agreement for IBM to provide various IT services. The agreement contained a number of exit provisions, including an “exit plan” that would allow...
View ArticleBlogging platform provider could be liable as defamatory publisher for not...
Tamiz v Google Inc, Court of Appeal Payam Tamiz, a former Conservative Party candidate, sued Google Inc for an article that had been published about him on Google’s blogging platform. The article had...
View ArticleNot unreasonable to require online news providers to proactively remove user...
Delfi v Estonia, European Court of Human Rights Estonia had not acted in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights when an online news provider had been held responsible for not monitoring...
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