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Accountancy regulators confront AI cheating in exams
Zoe Beels
27 August 2015
Victims of the Ashley Madison hack can't look to the law to help them: First Appeared in Spear's 27 August
If you've been exposed as an affair-hunter, the law makes it tricky to get redress, says Dr Rosa Malley of Kingsley Napley.
Described as one of the 'most legally troublesome data dumps in history', the hacking of the Ashley Madison website, which promotes itself with the tagline 'Life is short, have an affair', is no doubt sending shivers down the spine of any registered user who cares about their relationship or their reputation.
21 August 2015
Google Spain redux – removing search engine links to stories about removing search engine links
Following the Court of Justice of the European Union decision in the now notorious “Google Spain” case, Google, and other search engine operators, have set up processes to deal with request by individuals to have URL links removed from search results against the individual’s name. Individuals are entitled to have URL links removed where, in summary, the link has an unwarranted and negative impact on an individual’s privacy – and this is judged by reference to information contained on the website which the link leads to.
11 August 2015
Court confirms that libel is no longer actionable without proof of damage
In the recent case of BRUNO LACHAUX v INDEPENDENT PRINT LTD : BRUNO LACHAUX v EVENING STANDARD LTD : BRUNO LACHAUX v AOL (UK) LTD [2015] EWHC 2242 (QB), Justice Warby sitting in the High Court of Justice considered the meaning of the Defamation Act 2013 s.1(1), and confirmed that libel is no longer actionable without proof of damage. Where “serious harm” is found, the subsequent damage to reputation cannot be merely presumed but must be properly proven.
12 June 2015
High Net Worth Individuals - Protecting Financial Information
There has been much debate over the past few years about the extent to which high net worth individuals have a right to keep their financial affairs private. This has been a particularly thorny issue in respect of alleged tax avoiders. It is a debate that is unlikely to go away any time soon.
8 May 2015
Individuals prevent Daily Mail publication of their “private and confidential” relationship
In April this year an urgent application was made on behalf of two individuals for an injunction to prohibit publication by the defendant, the publisher of the Daily Mail, of what they claimed to be private and confidential information about them.