Tag Archives: Human Rights Act 1998
Footballer CTB is suing Twitter
A “guest” post by Charles Russell partner Nick Armstrong, in our Sports & Media Group: Twitter Inc. and some of its users are being sued in the High Court in London by the individual who obtained an injunction against The … Continue reading
Filed under Commercial, Data Protection
DoJ, Wikileaks and Twitter: Stones and Glasshouses
There seems to be a degree of outrage on many social media channels about the Department of Justice in the United States obtaining a court order to require the US-based social media platform Twitter, and possible Facebook and Google as … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection, Telecoms Regulation
#TwitterJokeTrial: a Deconstruction of a Statutory Provision
In this post, I examine a notorious criminal offence, which for many years had lain dormant on the statute books unloved and neglected: section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003. Perhaps it should be known at the #TwitterJokeTrial provision (after … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative Law, Telecoms Regulation
Human Rights and Responsibilites
In this post we are straying from our core area of commercial law to have a look at a topical example of how the European Convention of Human Rights (“ECHR”) is applied and enforced in the UK. Our excuse is … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative Law
Andrew Sharpe
