Hi, please note that there will be no OUT-LAW round-up next week due to the bank holidays. We'll be back in May. In the meantime, as always, there are plenty of other stories from this week. You can also access our archive of weekly emails. Public interest in a famous person's affair is less important than the wellbeing of children of the celebrity, the Court of Appeal has said. Social network sites must ensure that children's profiles are visible only to the child's friends and cannot be found on a search engine, the European Commission has said. A year after the disruption caused by the Icelandic ash cloud, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has refused to refer a travel insurance dispute to the court as a test case. It will no longer be enough to have "reasonable grounds" to believe that someone had consented to monitoring of their communications under changes to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) proposed by the Government. A Committee at the European Parliament has backed the European Commission's plans to create a new pan-EU contract law to aid cross border commerce. A new law should be created giving consumers the right to take misleading and aggressive businesses to court, the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission have said.This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
Children's rights should outweigh almost all cases of public interest in newspaper stories, Court of Appeal says
20/04/2011Social networks must automatically restrict children's profiles, says EU Commission
20/04/2011Financial ombudsman rules out test case on volcanic ash
19/04/2011RIPA to be changed to demand full consent to monitoring
19/04/2011EU Parliament committee backs Commission's cross border contract plans
19/04/2011Law Commissions call for new law to be written to give consumers right to compensation
18/04/2011
Thursday, 21 April 2011
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