Associated Press in Paris provides more on a lawsuit first covered here: The snapshot shows Roman Polanski standing at a window, his face narrowly visible between the curtains. The French paper that published the photograph said it was a legitimate depiction of the director’s life under house arrest in his Swiss Alpine chalet, but the…
Category: Court
UK: Stop and search rules declared illegal
Richard James reports: The European court of human rights has ruled the controversial stop and search powers exercised by British police as illegal. The court ruled on Tuesday the powers introduced by the government under the Terrorism Act 2000 to stop people without grounds for suspicion violated article eight of the European convention on human…
Site’s terms still enforceable even if users never read them
Jacqui Cheng reports: We’re all guilty of skipping over a site’s terms and conditions, but don’t go crying to the courts if there’s something in there that comes back to bite you. Another court has upheld a site’s “browserwrapped” terms of use, saying that they were displayed prominently enough that it’s the user’s fault for…
UK: Businessman is arrested in front of wife and son… for ‘anti-gipsy’ email that he didn’t even write
James Millbank reports: A wealthy businessman was arrested at home in front of his wife and young son over an email which council officials deemed ‘offensive’ to gipsies – but which he had not even written. The email, concerning a planning appeal by a gipsy, included the phrase: ‘It’s the ‘do as you likey’ attitude…