12 March 2012 | Paul Gershlick
Per Wimmer organised a filmed skydive at Mount Everest. He assembled a team and that included Stephen Slater, a cameraman. Slater became aware of a documentary shown on Danish television including filming...
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12 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned two newspaper adverts from Ryanair as they were likely to cause offence. The adverts showed women posing in underwear with the headline “Red Hot Fares...
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8 March 2012 | Paul Gershlick
The US Government has proposed that US organisations should be legally required to give consumers more control over their data. This is part of a new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. This would entail...
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8 March 2012 | Paul Gershlick
The Government has said that the biopharmaceutical industry is the "jewel in the crown" of the UK economy. In the last 10 years, the industry has grown faster than any other industry apart from finance...
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8 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg
The 17-year-old son (JS) of Caroline Spelman MP, a cabinet minister, played rugby for England Under 16s. He had been the subject of an interim injunction to prevent the disclosure of private information...
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7 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg
The GSMA, which represents mobile phone operators, has published privacy guidelines for “Mobile Application Development”. It is hoped that the guidelines will give “app” users better transparency,...
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7 March 2012 | Amanda Melton
I have recently written an article for the journal Family Law Online on an interesting case which was recently heard at the Court of Appeal. To read the article, please click here.
The case concerns...
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