Families who help terminally ill relatives to end their lives will be free from the risk of prosecution after a landmark ruling yesterday. The Director of Public Prosecutions is to rush out urgent guidance to clarify the law after Debbie Purdy, a multiple sclerosis sufferer, won an historic judgment from the House of Lords. The…
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The Pirate Bay ordered to close in the Netherlands
The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has won its court case against The Pirate Bay. The Amsterdam court today ruled that the site must cease all operations in The Netherlands within 10 days, or else pay penalties of 30,000 euros ($42,300) a person, per day. In an Amsterdam court last week, BREIN’s lawyer argued that The…
Pirate Bay unfazed by new threats
Peter Sunde, a co-founder of high-profile file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, says new legal action against the site is nothing more than “harassment”. Thirteen Hollywood production companies filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to try to get the website shut down. Read more on BBC News. Thanks to Brian Honan for this link.
EU bank data move ignored legal advice
EU member states laid aside the advice of their own legal experts in cutting MEPs out of talks on a new bank data deal with the US. The legal services of the EU council (the member states’ secretariat in Brussels) in July put forward a confidential paper saying that the European Parliament should have co-legislative…