Hi, Here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News. As always, click the links to read the full stories of the summaries below or see these and many other stories from this week's news at http://www.out-law.com/page-5951. You can also access our archive of weekly emails at http://www.out-law.com/page-7793. The OUT-LAW Team ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Firms must go to court to stop every counterfeit consignment entering UK, says HMRC Companies will have to go to court every time they want counterfeit goods to be stopped at the UK's borders following a policy change that could send costs soaring for intellectual property rights holders. 25/06/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10122 2. Regional e-crime squads to be created to combat cybercrime Police forces across the UK plan to pool their e-crime specialists to create regional cybercrime squads. The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) said that that e-crime policing needed a "more consistent" approach. 25/06/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10121 3. How the premium-rate regulator will target content producers The premium rate phone regulator has published proposals which would make the companies behind premium services more accountable for their actions. PhonepayPlus has said that all the companies involved in a service should be responsible for its failings. 24/06/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10120 4. Council MD did not lie about health in £1m claim, says High Court The managing director of a local authority did not mislead her employer when she failed to tell them that she had suffered from depression, the High Court has ruled. She will not have to repay the nearly £1 million claimed from her by the council. 23/06/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10117 5. Manchester Council's unencrypted laptop loss broke data protection law, says regulator Manchester City Council broke the Data Protection Act when it failed to encrypt laptop computers containing data on nearly two thousand workers. The local authority has promised to ensure all mobile computers are encrypted. 23/06/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10116 6. UK Government commits to cloud computing for public sector The Government has asked all public sector bodies to make future IT purchases consistent with cloud computing so that it can move all its digital services into a private, secure 'cloud' called 'G-cloud' for government bodies. 23/06/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10114 ***OUT-LAW Radio: Links and levies*** We delve into the world of clippings services as a newspaper body tries to get media monitoring agencies and clients to pay up for forwarding web links 25/06/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-7212 ***About this email*** This is a weekly email for subscribers of OUT-LAW.COM, a website with more than 8,000 pages of free legal news and guidance. If and when you need further advice, we hope you'll choose Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM. Feel free to forward this email to your friends. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like your own subscription, register free at http://www.out-law.com. Existing subscribers: you can manage your profile at http://www.out-law.com/page-520. The email address for this subscription is <>. Feel free to give us your feedback by replying to this email. To unsubscribe, please reply with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. (We'd also appreciate you telling us why you've decided to unsubscribe.) This email is sent on behalf of Pinsent Masons LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in England & Wales (registered number: OC333653) and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The word 'partner', used in relation to the LLP, refers to a member of the LLP or an employee or consultant of the LLP or any affiliated firm who has equivalent standing and qualifications. A list of the members of the LLP, and of those non-members who are designated as partners, is displayed at the LLP's registered office: CityPoint, One Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9AH, United Kingdom.