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News has reached us from the Norwich Evening News that former Celtic FC goalkeeper, David Marshall has been fined £800 for not having a TV licence. This is on top of an existing £90 fine for driving whilst using a … Continue reading →

Edinburgh Law Librarian and Blogger, JennieLaw is complaining about a new facebook application which encourages people to gossip anonymously about their friends. Quite correctly, she suggests that the potential for defamatory comments being made in this way could be storing … Continue reading →

Peter Cherbi’s Diary of Injustice in Scotland asks the (not unreasonable) question: why, if the new Scottish Legal Complaints Commission is subject to Freedom of Information legislation, is the Law Society of Scotland not? He concludes: “What could there be … Continue reading →

The Scottish Government today published the responses to its consultation on proposed amendments to the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004. There were well over 100 responses including 27 from individuals and, of course, one from the Education … Continue reading →

Just came across this and I like it – a lot. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You … Continue reading →

You may have read or heard, in various media, the story of Robin Jenkins, the accountant and fraudster who embezzled nearly £100,000 from his employers. He was jailed for almost 5 years by the Sheriff in Falkirk Sheriff Court on … Continue reading →

VoteLaw has drawn my attention to the fact that the Charity Commission in England & Wales has ruled that the think tank set up in memory of the late Labour leader John Smith (the Smith Institute) broke the laws governing … Continue reading →

AS we previously reported in Squatters in Narnia? there is currently a complaint before the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) concerning the domain narnia.mobi. A decision is expected this Monday (21 July 2008). The current owners of the disputed domain … Continue reading →

Internet expert Scott Cleland testified yesterday before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Internet Subcommittee on broadband regulations and privacy, highlighting the need for a comprehensive approach to Internet privacy, and spotlighting the serious privacy threat posed by Internet applications … Continue reading →

News reaches us that Dumfries and Galloway Council has decided not to purchase Raydale Park, the former home of Gretna Football Club, from the administrators to be used as a sport and leisure centre “on legal advice”. On the same … Continue reading →