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Tribunal Supremo Electoral Improves Speed and Reliability of Vote Processing
White Papers The Tribunal Supremo Electoral (Supreme Electoral Court) is the highest body that oversees voting in Ecuador. Supreme Electoral Court wanted to implement a reliable high-availability IT infrastructure to guarantee transparency and reliability of...
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
ICO: Name organisations at employment tribunal
News However, a ruling by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at the beginning of October found that the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (Berr) must disclose which employers are involved in tribunal disputes.
[October 16, 2008, 15:31]
UK terrorist trials to be aired on Web
News The UK's appeals tribunal for suspected terrorists is to make its judgements available online, the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) announced on 5 July 2004. The tribunal, which usually hears most of its evidence in secret, is to publish...
[July 6, 2004, 12:30]
Watchdog warns Net policing will go unchecked
News The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) -- Britain's intelligence services watchdog -- has raised concern that the Act's Regulatory Tribunal, created to provide checks against abuses of this power, will be relatively toothless.
[April 3, 2001, 15:24]
Councils, IBM face legal action over outsourcing deal
News Two local councils and IBM face action at the employment tribunal over claims that a £400m outsourcing joint venture broke rules on the transfer of public-sector staff. Trade union Unison is taking the global services giant and its partners to an...
[August 7, 2008, 10:29]
Ofcom fights to save mobile-mast website
News Ofcom is appealing to the courts against a decision by the Information Tribunal, on 4 September, which ruled that the data on a website which gives details on all the mobile-phone masts in the UK should be released in a comprehensive and...
[October 4, 2007, 11:59]
Handsets hold key to Vivendi vote 'piracy'
News An alleged episode of vote 'piracy' at the Vivendi Universal general meeting is to be investigated by the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris, the body that presides over corporate legal disputes in France.
[May 8, 2002, 15:56]
Data surveillance complaints have zero success rate
News The Investigatory Powers Tribunal was created in October 2000 to safeguard citizens from abuses of the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which lets certain government authorities get access to private information about...
[November 5, 2003, 17:25]
Freeserve won't let broadband complaint die
News Freeserve announced on Monday that it plans to bring the Competition Act Tribunal (CAT) into the dispute. It wants the tribunal to overturn the decision taken last month by Oftel that BT has not made anti-competitive cuts to the cost of BT...
[December 22, 2003, 12:30]
Gov't loses fight to keep ID card reviews secret
News The publication of the reports was ordered by the Information Tribunal today and is a blow for the government, which had argued it was important they remain confidential to protect future Gateway reviews.
[February 23, 2009, 7:26]
Freeserve sparks BT broadband enquiry
News However, Freeserve went to the Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal (CCAT) and appealed against that decision. The tribunal will now look at the case closure and there will be a new hearing dealing principally with Oftel's procedures and the...
[November 12, 2002, 7:33]
Smutty banker awarded compensation
News While the tribunal agreed with this assessment of Sangster's actions, it also stated that he had not been properly informed about the email policy within the bank, and as such his sacking was unfounded.
[December 12, 2002, 15:28]
Operators abandon faster-porting group
News The decision was taken in the light of a judgement made last week by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), in which the tribunal agreed with Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2 and Orange that the regulator Ofcom had not properly costed its proposals for...
[September 25, 2008, 17:44]
Ofcom's plan to speed up number porting derailed
News However, Vodafone— backed up by O2, T-Mobile and Orange — filed an objection to the plan with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), arguing that Ofcom had not given a sufficient technical specification or accurate costing for the proposed database.
[September 19, 2008, 16:03]
Women's employment rights are strengthened
News Women will still have to present a 'prima facie' case at an employment tribunal, where for example a woman did not get promotion where a less qualified man was selected. If you are bringing a sex discrimination case often a tribunal or the press...
[October 10, 2001, 18:17]
Government 'too busy' to deal with spam
News At present the powers of the ICO "are effectively nullified until [the case is] heard by the Information Tribunal", Phil Jones, assistant information commissioner, told ZDNet UK. An important practical point is that the tribunal takes time to be...
[September 13, 2005, 18:20]
Bradshaw: Courts must OK P2P disconnections
News Firstly, there would need to be a court order for any of the technical measures that we're discussing in the consultation document to be implemented, and secondly, there would be a right of appeal to a Tier 1 tribunal.
[October 22, 2009, 17:15]
Microsoft fails to subpoena IBM
News A foreign tribunal has jurisdiction over those appearing before it, and can itself order them to produce the evidence," the judge stated in her order. Microsoft must request the documents from the Commission, as opposed to requesting them directly...
[April 24, 2006, 9:35]
New powers put privacy laws to the test
News The burden will be on individuals to take complaints to the investigatory powers tribunal if they feel their information has been misused. However, the tribunal has been heavily criticised by members of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC...
[June 12, 2002, 16:58]
Public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News The body which deals with interception complaints, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, struggled with the additional workload. The inevitable result has been an increase in the time taken to deal with applications, given that there has been no...
[August 10, 2009, 16:19]
