Offences which the Financial Service Authority (FSA) are encouraging employees to report concerning the financial sector, and the consultation released proposing extensions to the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and guidelines for internal investigatory procedures

Examines the powers of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000's civil market abuse regime and the Criminal Justice Act 1993. Looks at: (1) the powers of detection, including supervision, market surveillance and whistleblowing; (2) the powers to...

The ongoing problem of digital file sharing technology evolving at a speed far greater than the law can keep up with is demonstrable with litigation upheld against the producers of peer-to-peer networks such as Grokster towards the ends of their natural useful lives. As file sharers and, with...

The Digital Economy Act 2010 was hurried into existence in the dying days of the last Labour government, and contains powers designed to resist unauthorised file sharing that are due to be implemented by an Initial Obligations Code authored by Ofcom. Even before the Code has been published,...

Regulators have a choice of approaches available to them in regulating digital copyright issues that lie on a scale between restrictiveness and openness. In a world in which the regulator seems to exclusively rely on entrenching a restrictive approach, this paper questions whether the...

Although commentaries regarding intellectual property regulation frequently point out the complexities inherent in its subsistence and reform, the subject is still often discussed in overly simplistic terms of black and white. This paper examines the problems such a view poses, and questions...

As the internet has become ever more prolific and intrinsic to modern society, so it has attracted the attention of the regulators of the world. As the domestic and international legislatures apply their increasingly restrictive rules to the information superhighway, this paper asks if they have...

Discusses the gaps in the regulation of insider dealing left by the criminal law and self-regulatory organisations and mechanisms. Examines the criminal or civil status of the market abuse regime under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 Part VIII, focusing on its classification for the...