Last week a High Court judge sanctioned the sterilisation of a man with learning difficulties, ruling that, if his girlfriend got pregnant again, it could cause him psychological damage.
Read moreBan To Be Lifted On Healthcare Workers With HIV
New rules are to be brought in surrounding healthcare staff with HIV, with the ban that stops them performing certain medical procedures, such as surgery, to be lifted first.
Read morePrivate Emails Not So Private
People sending email to any of Google’s 425 million Gmail users apparently have “no reasonable expectation” that their correspondence is confidential, according to the firm itself.
Read moreTrade Mark Conundrum
Experts have described the recent ruling by the Intellectual Property Office, in which it refused to allow Nestlé to trademark the four-finger shape of its KitKat bar, as “remarkable”.
Read moreData Protection Vote Postponed Again
The European Union is currently reviewing the European Data Protection framework in order to ensure that European law is fit for purpose for the digital era, despite the parliamentary vote on amendments to data protection law has just been postponed…
Read moreHate Crime Consultation Needs Responses
The Law Commission published a consultation recently asking whether or not the laws around hate crime should be reformed to cover disability, sexual orientation and gender, race and religion.
Read moreHuman Rights Act could be scrapped
In the strongest signal yet that a Conservative-only Government would get rid of the Human Rights Act, Prime Minister David Cameron said this week that his party needs “to look at scrapping” the Act.
Read moreZero-Hours Case Brought
As the zero-hours contracts furore rages this week, retail giant Sports Direct is the first firm to have an employment tribunal case brought against it, in a move to test the legality of the treatment of the company’s part-time employees.
Read moreUK Copyright Hub Pilot Online
A pilot version of the ‘Copyright Hub’, recommended by the Hooper report, went online last month in a bid to make it easier for people to track down and license copyrighted works legally on the internet.
Read moreNew Legislation On Cards For Zero-Hours Contracts
As research shows that around a million workers in the UK are on zero-hours contracts, Business Secretary Vince Cable has pledged to review legislation on the controversial deals.
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