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UK expert calls for entrapment of paedophiles
News A senior partner at the UK's largest criminal law firm says British law needs revising if Internet paedophiles like Patrick Green are to be caught before they have the chance to assault children. Criminal experts are in agreement that US entrapment...
[October 25, 2000, 11:07]
Email scammer sent down in $242m fraud case
Talkback The law regulates the social interests through the instrumentality of criminal law. Fortification of society and stamping out criminal inclination must be the object of the law, which must be achieved by imposing suitable sentence.
[July 18, 2005, 19:31]
Blogging sites harbouring cybercriminals
Talkback The real threat of criminal law Thus, the threat of criminal law is real and apparent and it must be kept in mind by the blog providers. It must be appreciated that both "acts" and "omissions" are punishable under the criminal laws.
[July 26, 2005, 18:06]
North Carolina Statutes
Downloads Chapters include criminal law, criminal procedure, motor vehicles, public health, evidence code, dogs, products, liability, taxation, and offenses against public morals. North Carolina Statutes is the statutory law of the state of North Carolina...
[September 15, 2009, 8:13]
EU lawmakers threaten open source
News The European Commission has proposed a law that could allow criminal charges to be pressed against businesses using software that is believed to infringe upon another company's intellectual property (IP).
[August 1, 2005, 17:45]
Home Office to criminalise chatroom meetings
News There was concern that the civil order on its own wouldn't address the serious situation of where a paedophile had arranged a meeting with a child for sexual purposes," explained Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow, who sits on the criminal law...
[July 20, 2001, 17:18]
Government limits consultation on child protection law
News The "grooming" proposal was developed in August by the Scrutiny of the Criminal Law subgroup of the Home Office Internet Taskforce on Child Protection. The government has issued a letter to all cabinet members and members of the legal profession...
[September 7, 2001, 8:30]
DMCA case verdict: Not guilty
News The case against ElcomSoft is considered a crucial test of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law designed to extend copyright protections into the digital age.
[December 18, 2002, 8:08]
'DMCA on steroids' heads for Euro Parliament
News A proposed European Union law strengthening law-enforcement capabilities against intellectual-property violations is set for a crucial vote next week, amid criticism from civil liberties groups that it would allow companies to use draconian...
[February 19, 2004, 20:39]
Government moves to tackle phishing
News Home Office minister Fiona Mactaggart said: "The introduction of a general fraud offence will improve the criminal law in a number of respects. Paul Wood, a chief analyst at security company MessageLabs, said the government needed to focus on...
[May 31, 2005, 14:05]
Encryption key legal challenge?
Blog One criminal law specialist has told technology law podcast OUT-LAW Radio that the law could be challenged under the Human Rights Act, though he also warned that such a challenge could fail under legal tests set out by the European Court of...
[January 25, 2008, 17:08]
We do differ some...but we also agree
Talkback In some jurisdictions, it is felt that a mental condition that causes compulsive behaviour must by law reduce the level of criminal culpability. That was us reducing the level of criminal culpability.
[September 9, 2009, 19:58]
Experts urge criminal charges for data breaches
News A former deputy information commissioner has called for failure to comply with data-protection principles to be made a criminal offence. As for the "stick", he said: "I would like to see a criminal penalty for failing to comply with [the principles...
[July 3, 2008, 17:17]
Lawyers sceptical of "grooming" laws
News Franklin Sinclair, senior partner at Tuckers Solicitors, is anxious that any law dealing with criminal intent must go beyond a person performing preparatory acts. Government plans to criminalise the "grooming" of children on the Internet could be...
[March 6, 2001, 11:44]
DoJ may regret battling Google over porn probe
News If Google convinces California courts that a federal privacy law protects Internet users' search terms from a subpoena, it would become more difficult for law enforcement to seek such records in future criminal investigations, legal experts are...
[February 22, 2006, 12:30]
'Reckless' data loss made a civil offence
News In a victory for data-loss law campaigners, MPs backed the amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act to make it an offence for anyone to "intentionally or recklessly disclose information" or "repeatedly and negligently" allow...
[May 13, 2008, 9:34]
Communication interception goes global
News The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has created the LegalXML Lawful Intercept XML (LI-XML) technical committee to develop a global framework to support the "rapid discovery and sharing of suspected...
[January 24, 2003, 9:05]
Russians to be tried under DMCA
News The decision clears the way for a trial in the closely watched case -- believed to be the first criminal prosecution under the contentious law. A US federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges against a Russian software...
[May 9, 2002, 14:02]
Home Office may criminalise chatroom 'grooming'
News We are aware that the particular act of 'grooming' is not covered by criminal law, and we are looking at a way of tackling this without criminalising harmless activity," said a Home Office spokesman. Based on the Protection from Harassment Act 1997...
[May 9, 2001, 14:25]
Are BSA a protection racket or do they own the unlicensed software?
Talkback Also, use of software is covered by contract law not criminal law - if you use an unlicensed copy you can be sued, not prosecuted. A fine is a criminal penalty. I'm confused here. If BSA sue, what gives them the legal right to demand payment from...
[June 25, 2007, 12:36]
