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Tenants And Landlords See Eye-to-Eye With Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal's Avaya Contact Centre Solution
White Papers The Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal (ORHT) has 14 offices across Ontario, Canada. Tenants and landlords turn to the ORHT to learn about rules that govern the relationship between landlords and tenants, rent increases, terminating tenancies and to...
[September 5, 2006, 0:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The Blogosphere Strikes Back At Censorship
News In other blog news, a British citizen based in France who claims she was sacked after blogging is taking her former employer to an employment tribunal, according to the Daily Telegraph. According to the Telegraph, her lawyer has lodged a claim with...
[July 20, 2006, 14:25]
Oftel To Reinvestigate BT Broadband
News Oftel is to reinvestigate claims that BT acted anti-competitively in promoting its broadband products, following a successful appeal to the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) by BT rival Freeserve. Freeserve originally asked Oftel, the telecoms...
[April 16, 2003, 16:06]
Judge Rules Against Release Of ID Card Review
News Judge Stanley Burnton overturned the decision by the Information Tribunal that the ID card gateway reviews should be published. A new hearing of the Information Tribunal will now decide whether they should be published.
[April 15, 2008, 8:31]
Surfing Results In Sacking
News In what could prove to be a landmark case, an industrial tribunal yesterday found in favour of her employers. Lois Franxhi, an IT manager at Focus Management Consultants, was sacked in July last year for using the Internet to book a holiday.
[June 16, 1999, 14:38]
Could Employers Ban Personal Email?
News The warning comes shortly after a tribunal ruling Monday, which upheld a company's decision to sack two employees for wasting resources by distributing joke emails. The British Chamber of Commerce has warned that employers may ban workers from...
[November 28, 2000, 15:49]
Lucent Loses Court Case Over Employee Web Site
News The controversial decision, issued by the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Marseille on 11 June, found in favour of Escota, a roads authority for southern France. A French court has ruled that Lucent Technologies was liable for an illicit Internet...
[July 11, 2003, 16:56]
NASA Hacker Loses Extradition Fight
Talkback Its also possible, indeed probably fairly likely that he'll end up being tried under anti terrorism legislation, by a military tribunal at camp x ray. This guy is probably bang on in his expectation of having zero chance of a fair hearing, Virginia...
[May 11, 2006, 17:32]
