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Accountancy regulators confront AI cheating in exams
Zoe Beels
15 October 2014
It’s celebrity autobiography season – what to do if you are libelled in a book
We are now officially in the run up to Christmas. One of the many signs of this is the sudden appearance of a spate of celebrity autobiographies. Not only are these autobiographies now hitting the shelves, but in many cases, the contents of the books are trailed by a series of extracts published in selected newspapers.
25 September 2014
Media reporting lessons from the Cooper-Hohn divorce
Article first published in Wealth Briefing on 25 September 2014.
Media reporting of divorce financial cases is troublesome. It is difficult for the parties, who are often high-profile as well as high-net-worth, their advisers and the media.
2 September 2014
Legal update: Trial by jury in defamation claims - the exception rather than the rule
Tim Yeo v Times Newspapers Ltd [2014] EWHC 2853 (QB)
This case concerned a libel action brought by the claimant Tim Yeo MP (Y) against the defendant, The Times Newspapers Ltd (T).
15 August 2014
Defamation claimants won’t get the “benefit” of the doubt under new law
Since implementation of the new Defamation Act 2013 earlier this year, legal commentators have been anxiously awaiting the first judgments on the new provisions. Will they provide us with clarity?
5 August 2014
Legal update: Businessman granted leave to serve injunction proceedings on Google out of the jurisdiction
Last Thursday, in the case of Hegglin v Google Inc. & ORS (2014) QBD, the High Court granted a businessman leave to serve proceedings under the Data Protection Act 1998 out of the jurisdiction on Google, seeking injunctive relief in respect of defamatory comments posted on websites by an anonymous individual.