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Clearview AI ruling confirms UK GDPR applies beyond borders
Christopher Perrin
18 July 2013
Case Update: Miller v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 1934 (Admin)
High Court quashes Fitness to Practise Panel’s (“FTTP”) decision to hear the whole of the General Medical Council’s (“GMC”) case against the Claimant in private on the basis that the GMC had failed to discharge its burden of proof for the need for any derogation from the default position of a right to a public hearing under Article 6 or for a need to derogate to the extent claimed.
12 July 2013
Health and social care regulation: one size fits all?
This week, Frances Patterson QC gave an early indication as to the likely outcome of the recent Law Commission Consultation on the future of the health and social care regulatory regime. Julie Norris was at the Lexis Nexis Disciplinary Law Conference and can report on what is likely to be contained in the new consolidating Act. Regulators planning their activities over the next few years may wish to read on…
9 July 2013
Case Update: Associated Newspapers makes public apology following false allegations of planned chemical weapons attack
A statement has been made in open court in the libel proceedings (1) David Goulding (2) Philip Doughty (3) Britam Defence Ltd v Associated Newspapers Ltd (2013) in which the newspaper publisher accepted that it had wrongly alleged that the claimants had been part of a plot to launch a chemical weapons attack in Syria.
8 July 2013
Case Update: Sky succeeds in trade mark infringement and passing off action against Microsoft
In the recent case of (1) British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC (2) Sky IP International Ltd (3) British Sky Broadcasting Ltd (4) Sky International AG v (1) Microsoft Corporation (2) Microsoft Luxembourg SARL [2013] EWHC 1826 (Ch) the High Court ruled in favour of Sky in its IP claim against Microsoft regarding the latter’s online storage facility product “SkyDrive”.
4 July 2013
Case Update: Dr. Utkan Alacakanat –v- General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 1866 (Admin)
High Court concludes that the decision of the General Medical Council to refuse the Claimant’s application to be considered an “exempt person” for the purposes of an application to the General Medical Council (“GMC”) Register was a correct one and did not discriminate on the basis of nationality.