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Children's rights should outweigh almost all cases of public interest in newspaper stories, Court of Appeal says
Public interest in a famous person's affair is less important than the wellbeing
of children of the celebrity, the Court of Appeal has said.
20/04/2011
Social networks must automatically restrict children's profiles, says EU Commission
Social network sites must ensure that children's profiles are visible only to
the child's friends and cannot be found on a search engine, the European
Commission has said.
20/04/2011
Financial ombudsman rules out test case on volcanic ash
A year after the disruption caused by the Icelandic ash cloud, the Financial
Ombudsman Service (FOS) has refused to refer a travel insurance dispute to the
court as a test case.
19/04/2011
RIPA to be changed to demand full consent to monitoring
It will no longer be enough to have "reasonable grounds" to believe that someone
had consented to monitoring of their communications under changes to the
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) proposed by the Government.
19/04/2011
EU Parliament committee backs Commission's cross border contract plans
A Committee at the European Parliament has backed the European Commission's
plans to create a new pan-EU contract law to aid cross border commerce.
19/04/2011
Law Commissions call for new law to be written to give consumers right to compensation
A new law should be created giving consumers the right to take misleading and
aggressive businesses to court, the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission
have said.
18/04/2011
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