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A former police officer has been sacked for sending offensive WhatsApp messages to colleagues, a police force said. Former PC Samuel Thacker, a response officer based in Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
A father and daughter who were both police officers, exchanged "hostile" and "discriminatory" messages with each other about crime victims and colleagues, it has emerged. In one message, the dad ...
Modern libel and slander laws in many countries are originally descended from English defamation law.The history of defamation law in England is somewhat obscure; civil actions for damages seem to have been relatively frequent as far back as the Statute of Gloucester in the reign of Edward I (1272–1307). [1]
Former police officer sent to jail for 18 months. Force sacks officer convicted of sexual assault. Officer struck and discriminated against Polish man. Related internet links. Cambridgeshire ...
Although freedom of expression and protection of privacy over the Internet is guaranteed by UK law, since about 2010 there has been an increasing shift towards authoritarian measures such as increased surveillance (The United Kingdom has more police surveillance cameras than anywhere else outside of China) and police action.
Some common law jurisdictions distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. [26] The fundamental distinction between libel and slander lies solely in the form in which the defamatory matter is published. If the offending material is published in some fleeting ...
Helen Steel (born 1965) [1] is an environmental and social justice activist [2] who is known for her involvement in the McLibel case, an English lawsuit for libel filed by McDonald's Corporation that lasted for 10 years and was eventually taken to the European Court of Human Rights, where Steel and fellow campaigner David Morris won their case against the UK Government on the grounds that they ...
A police officer who was found with drugs has been barred from serving on the force. PC Mathew Carter was found to be carrying a wrap of cocaine when he was stopped by Greater Manchester Police ...