law this week
RSS law this weekVeritas hit with investor lawsuit over earnings
News The law firm of Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow said this week that it filed a class-action suit against Veritas, CEO Gary Bloom and CFO Edwin Gillis. The law firm alleged that despite "having no reasonable basis to do so, Defendants caused the... [12 Jul 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.09.05
Round-Up And that appears to have been the final straw for one group of fans, unaware of the concept of karma, who took it upon themselves to launch a denial of service attack against law firm Allen & Overy who represent Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Tampa... [23 Sep 2005]
The best of 'Reader Comments': The great cookie debate and FriendsReunited - the free speech angle
Comment If it becomes law that the site has to ask permission before setting one all that I suspect will happen is that an obscure clause will be added to the Terms and Conditions of the site stating that by using the site a user grants it permission to... [16 Nov 2001]
Contractors take IR35 challenge to UK High Court
News We feel it is so unfair that our members have banded together and are funding a judicial review that will hopefully get this stupid and draconian law chucked out. The PCG's legal council, Gerald Barling QC, was responsible for having the ban on... [26 Jun 2000]
Libel on the Net: have the legal floodgates opened?
Comment Under UK law, anyone who plays a part in the distribution of libellous material - from publishers to printers to retailers - can be sued. Netbenefit's decision makes sense in a world where ISPs must strike the delicate balance of free speech and... [05 Apr 2000]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up However, as it happens, the rather strange but law-abiding denizens of Second Life (no, not these guys… ) were the focus of attention this week as they made their case to Capitol Hill legislators that their world is safer and easier to police than... [04 Apr 2008]
Skills Survey 2003: UK techies work hard but can afford to play hard
News The UK's high-tech workers are still working far harder than the 'average' 35-hour week - with a significant proportion going over the maximum suggested by EU law. More than 34 per cent put in 35 to 40 hours; 28.4 per cent 40 to 45; 16.3 per cent... [25 Mar 2003]
Spam: Government 'too busy' to deal with it, says ICO
News The government was criticised when it introduced PECR into law for not giving the ICO stronger powers. In October 2003, the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group said the DTI had erred by not providing the resources and powers needed to enforce... [14 Sep 2005]
China: Web censorship gives US pause for thought
News Paris-based Reporters Without Borders this week backed a law banning a US company from hosting an email server in any "repressive" country. are abiding by Chinese law mandating internet censorship, some irritated US politicians are threatening to... [13 Jan 2006]
SCO's Linux challenge likely to backfire
News According to SCO, IBM broke copyright law by inserting some of SCO's proprietary Unix code into the Linux operating system. Datamonitor said it is in the interests of Linux users and vendors to challenge SCO's claims of copyright infringement and... [25 Jul 2003]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment Of course, there're no easy votes in a data breaches law and no easy photo opportunity for any politician who might want to champion it - kissing servers isn't quite as appealing as kissing babies, I guess. [27 Feb 2008]
Google vs US gov't: Court date delayed
News The outcome will determine whether the US Justice Department will prevail in its fight to force Google to help it defend an anti-pornography law in a trial in Philadelphia this autumn. The law orders commercial websites to shield minors from... [03 Feb 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.11.06
Round-Up It used to be the case that the decent law abiding citizens of the UK could get caught speeding and be able to provide a false name and address, possibly even backed up by some false documents, forged driving licence and illegal number plates… and... [24 Nov 2006]
IR35: has a judge made the whole thing meaningless?
News UK law firm Tarlo Lyons claims an appeal won last week by HP could make it extremely difficult for the government to treat independent contractors as employees of the firms they work for. It added: "Hewlett-Packard pursued this action as it... [03 Oct 2001]
Dear silicon.com... Apple vs Vista, jail for mobile users and the broadband swindle…
Comment The police don't have resources to implement the existing law on mobiles. Let's replace some cameras with real police officers who can see when someone is driving badly, on the phone, clearly over full of Christmas spirit or whatever and actually... [03 Jan 2008]
