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Biggest EU Digital Shake-Up Since GDPR? What Businesses Need To Know
Christopher Perrin
6 February 2012
New Court Guidelines on Social Media: To Tweet or Not to Tweet
With the increasing demand for live reporting of high-profile cases, and the proliferation in the use of Twitter, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, has issued new Court guidelines clarifying the use of live text-based communications such as mobile email, social media (including Twitter) and internet enabled laptops in and from Courts in England and Wales:
27 January 2012
Harassment: will a change in the law provide better protection for victims of stalking?
Last week the Government launched a consultation with the aim of providing more effective protection to victims of stalking. This consultation is due to last until 5 February.
27 January 2012
Insurance Policy: Would you like to add on legal expenses insurance?
Do you know that you can buy (before the event) insurance to cover some legal expenses? An individual has a primary responsibility to pay their lawyer’s fees and not all cases can or will fit into the “no-win, no-fee bracket”.
27 January 2012
Intellectual Property: Improved access to justice for intellectual property right claims heard in the Patents County Court
On 1 October 2011, The Patents County Court (Financial Limits) (No 2) Order 2011 (SI2011/2222) came into force, introducing a £500,000 limit on the value of intellectual property (IP) right claims heard in the Patents County Court (PCC) for claims other than those relating to patents and designs.
24 January 2012
Making recoveries from judgment debtors owning property
It is a well known maxim in litigation that you can only recover as much money from a judgment debtor as the total of their assets.
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