Month: May 2024
9.05.24
Press release: The Telegraph pays tech entrepreneur Lu Heng substantial libel damages
The Telegraph has agreed to pay substantial damages to business and tech entrepreneur Lu Heng after accusing him in an article published on its website of disrupting organisations that provide IP addresses to different continents. In a statement read in the High Court today before Mrs Justice Steyn, Mr Lu’s solicitor, Tom Double, explained that the…
Read more8.05.24
Press release: Daily Mail apologises to Dale Vince and agrees to pay libel damages
The Daily Mail has today apologised to Dale Vince, the green energy industrialist, environmental campaigner and co-owner of Forest Green Rovers, for defaming him in articles by Andrew Pierce published on the MailOnline on 17 March 2024 and in the print edition of The Daily Mail on 18 March 2024. Under the headline ‘How Lee…
Read more6.05.24
Shoplifting at an all-time high: is a new offence of ‘assaulting a retail worker’ the answer?
Last week, the ONS published a report Crime in England and Wales: year ending December 2023 which revealed that the offences of theft from a shop are at the highest level in the last twenty years. The British Retail Consortium recently reported on the increasing number of incidents of violence and abuse against shop workers and…
Read more2.05.24
Drink driving: different types of offences with very different consequences
The principal offences that defendants are charged with in connection with motoring and alcohol are: Driving with Excess alcohol – contrary to section 5(1)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 Driving Whilst Unfit – contrary to section 4(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 Drunk in Charge – contrary to section 5(1)(b) of the Road…
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