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The modernisation of the civil justice system will take a step forward this month with the introduction of a pilot scheme to determine applications via video link.
For the next year, the courts in Manchester and Birmingham will offer video hearings for applications to set aside county court judgments (CCJs) where the judgment has been obtained in the absence of the defendant filing an acknowledgment of service or defence to a claim. All parties to the application and the judge must agree to use the court’s video link service and will be connected by webcam with a screen set up in the court room. The public will still be free to attend the hearing and view the parties or their legal representatives on the big screen.
It is hoped that video hearings will save time and money for parties involved in litigation while still preserving the ‘majesty’ of the courtroom. Technology and connection issues are expected in the early days of the pilot but if successful, justice by video link could become commonplace in courtrooms throughout England and Wales into the future…
Consent in abuse claims has long been a controversial and difficult subject to broach. Many organisations have been criticised for raising the issue.
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On 23 January 2019, the European Commission and the Personal Information Commission of Japan, concluded a two-year-long dialogue and the adoption of the decisions recognising each other’s personal data protection systems as ‘equivalent’.
Court of Appeal ('CA') has recently permitted an application for an extension of time to submit an appeal with the Employment Appeal Tribunal ('EAT') because it was in the interests of justice to do so.
The first major financial penalty of €50m (£44m) has been imposed on Google LLC (EU HQ in Ireland) by CNIL, the French data regulator.
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