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Author: Struan Robertson is the editor of Out-Law.com, OUT-LAW Magazine and OUT-LAW's sister site, AboutCookies.org. He also writes a weekly technology column for Times Online, a column for the British Computer Society’s Information Security Now quarterly journal and a monthly Q&A for .Net magazine. He works out of the Glasgow, Scotland, office of Pinsent Masons, a full-service law firm with eight offices in the U.K. as well as others in Hong Kong, China, Belgium and the United Arab Emirates.
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Recent Posts from Out-Law.com
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Tips for Christopher Graham, Britain's new privacy chief
The new Information Commissioner has a better opportunity to make a direct connection with the public and change privacy culture in the UK than any of his predecessors, information law experts have said.
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Lords ruling reduces contracts' certainty, says expert
A landmark House of Lords ruling will undermine the certainty of contracts and could make it more expensive to take cases over contract interpretation to court, according to a contract law expert.
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Software firm launches Google suit over AdWords and search listing
A software company has sued Google not only for trade mark infringement in Google's AdWords advertising system but for making its website invisible to the Google search engine.
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Companies will have to justify different treatment of old people, Government says
Financial services and insurance companies will have to justify any unfavourable treatment of older people while car hire companies will not be allowed to refuse to serve old people under new proposals drawn up by…
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No Dr No rights for Bond owners, says EU court
The company behind the James Bond film franchise cannot stop another company from registering Dr No as a trade mark because the film title is an indication of artistic, and not commercial, origin, an EU…
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Heatwave should prompt relaxed dress codes and law change say unions
Employers should relax dress codes in the current heatwave to avoid concentration lapses, mistakes and even accidents, union bosses have said. They have also called for a law change to create a maximum legal working…
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Pirate Bay to be heart of legal content distribution network, say new owners
The world's biggest distributor of links to copyright infringing material is to be bought by a software entrepreneur and turned into a legitimate business, the site has announced. The Pirate Bay has agreed to be…
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Regulators push for fairer, easier data protection compliance in outsourcing deals
The European Commission should make sure that outsourcing providers who process personal data are bound by consistent rules irrespective of whether they are based inside or outside the EU, data protection watchdogs have said.
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Retail investment reforms are a call to action for the industry, says FSA
The FSA's proposed new rules for the retail investment industry will impose a complete ban on commission-based sales and require firms to tell customers from the outset whether or not advice is independent and how…
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Prosecutors drop 'freedom threatening' Girls Aloud obscenity blog case
A blogger has been acquitted of obscenity offences in a court case that could have redefined UK citizens' right to free speech on the internet. Prosecutors offered no evidence against the 35 year-old.