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This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
Sky forced to slash ITV holding as court sets benchmark for corporate influence
Pay TV company BSkyB has been told that it must follow the Competition Commission's orders and sell over half of its stake in broadcaster ITV at a loss of around £500 million. The Court of Appeal backed the Commission's ruling.
21/01/2010
Do you know the hidden agenda of the Equality Bill?
OPINION: Employment lawyers and HR professionals would be advised to keep an eye on the progress of the Equality Bill, currently being debated in the House of Lords. Initially intended as a legislative sweep-up, it now proposes major policy changes.
21/01/2010
Europe's top court says age bars for job applicants can be legal
Europe's top court has said that some employers can stop people as young as 30 from applying for some jobs because they are too old. UK Employment Tribunals will have to take account of the ruling in age discrimination cases, an expert said.
21/01/2010
Why Google tax won’t fix France’s ‘creative deficit’
OPINION: When worlds turn upside down, crazy things happen. And so it is in France, where the Government's response to the information revolution appears to be to chide Google for damaging French culture by driving down the cost of advertising.
19/01/2010
Information Tribunal is abolished as new service takes charge
The appeals process for freedom of information and data protection cases changes from today as the previous structure is absorbed into a wider tribunals service.
18/01/2010
File-sharing network operator acquitted of fraud charges
The operator of a file sharing network that was raided by police in 2007 on suspicion of enabling copyright-infringement has been acquitted by a jury. Alan Ellis ran OiNK and was found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud by a Middlesborough court.
18/01/2010
OUT-LAW Radio: New alphabets cause security problems
21/01/2010: We talk to one security expert who says that the admirable plan to permit the use of other alphabets in the making of domain names could cause security headaches
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