Edition 4040: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Focus of the Day Law News/Article: A Dunbartonshire company director has been disqualified for eight years after his firm instigated 193 million automated calls and failed to pay a £500,000 fine. In 2018, Stephen Foote’s firm, CRDNN Limited, contravened regulation 19 and 24 of the privacy and electronic communications regulations 2003 (PECR) in that CRDNN made an approximate 193 million unauthorised automated calls, of which 52,994,243 connected. Full story - Scottish Legal News
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Social media bosses who repeatedly fail to protect children from online harms will face jail, after the Government was forced to head off a potential rebellion by Tory backbenchers. Under the changes to the Online Safety Bill, executives whose platforms fail to block content involving abuse, suicide and self harm could get two years in prison - a concession that prevents a potentially embarrassing Commons defeat for Rishi Sunak
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bosses could face jail time for failing to protect children online,
after the government conceded to a backbench rebellion. Nearly 50 Tory
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