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31 Jul 2009
Lawyers for Gary McKinnon have launched an impassioned attack on the UK justice system, following a decision to allow extradition proceedings against the Pentagon hacker to continue despite his recent diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome.
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31 Jul 2009
A US company has been granted a patent that it claims gives it rights over podcasting technology. Volomedia says that its patent, for "a method for providing episodic media", covers all episodic media downloads, or podcasts.
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31 Jul 2009
A claim that one food mixer violated the trade mark rights of another by being similar in shape has failed. The Court of Appeal said that any similarity in shape between the machines had not given Kenwood an unfair advantage over Whirlpool.
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30 Jul 2009
An interest rate of 15% agreed in a contract between two companies was not a penalty and was justified, the Court of Appeal has said. The interest, which had been ruled unlawful, can be charged, said the Court.
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30 Jul 2009
Life companies will no longer be able to use surpluses in with-profits funds to pay compensation for operational errors such as mis-selling from 31st July, the FSA has said. But the new rule will not apply if the misconduct happened before that date....
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30 Jul 2009
Ministers from the 27 European Union member states have backed plans to continue to allow US authorities to inspect the details of Europeans' bank transfers. They want the US to have access even to transfers that do not reach the US.
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30 Jul 2009
Racecourses did not break competition laws when they decided to sell their television rights only to a company that they owned. A rival company owned by betting shops has lost its case at the Court of Appeal.
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30 Jul 2009
The number of defamation cases brought by businesses has trebled in the past year, according to a legal publisher. The number of defamation cases overall increased by a third in the same period.
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30 Jul 2009
A group of major film studios has taken court action in Sweden to have The Pirate Bay shut down. The site's founders were found guilty on criminal charges of facilitating copyright infringement earlier this year but the site remains live.
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29 Jul 2009
EDITORIAL: In the first case of its kind, the Court of Appeal has endorsed website disclaimers. Mistakes can be excused by warning notices, it ruled. However, the judges based their decision, at least in part, on a misunderstanding of how people use websites....
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