Severely injured man celebrates European Court of Justice ruling
THOUSANDS of people who have suffered serious accidents while visiting other countries within the EU have breathed a sigh of relief following today’s decision of the European Court of Justice, but many thousands more may lose out in future if they have an accident aboard.
FEE would support proportionate regulation aimed at enhancing audit quality and audit services supply but warns against overregulation and unintended consequences
Brussels, 29 September 2011 – FEE (Fédération des Experts-comptables Européens – Federation of European Accountants) has noted media reports on possible European Commission proposals on audit policy. The proposals are understood to be complex and contain a detailed set of provisions that may impact widely on Public Interest Entities (PIEs) and Small and Medium-sized Entities (SMEs), stock markets, audit firms, different segments of the audit market, accountancy bodies and the whole future shape of the accountancy profession. Consequently, looking forward, we can only make detailed comments on such proposals once a thorough analysis has been undertaken in order to understand all the legal implications and long-term practical consequences, however, there are important matters which we consider must be addressed at this early stage.
Study of 10 million web application attacks shows automated attacks can peak at 25,000 an hour
Redwood Shores, Calif. – Imperva, the data security leader, released today the results of the Imperva 2011 Web Application Attack Report (WAAR), which revealed that web applications, on average, experience twenty seven attacks per hour, or roughly one attack every two minutes. The WAAR, created as a part of Imperva’s ongoing Hacker Intelligence Initiative, offers insight into actual malicious web application attack traffic over a period of six months, December 2010 through May 2011.
A libel action which was set to be heard without a jury has been dropped.
Michael Jackson’s former bodyguard Matt Fiddes withdrew his claim against Channel 4 on the eve of today’s scheduled opening in the High Court.
Mr Fiddes’ representatives MLaw insist the decision was only partly linked to the fact the costly case would be heard by a judge alone.
MLaw partner Chris Hutchings said: “Our claimant dropped these proceedings because Chanel 4 accepts that he didn’t betray the Jackson family by selling stories.
At the end of March two protagonists in a bitter court battle that had gone on for two years agreed a truce in the American courts. The case concerned the staging and conduct of the 2010 America’s Cup yacht race and involved two of the world’s richest men representing two high-profile yacht clubs in the USA and Switzerland.
The America’s Cup is the most prestigious yacht race in the world, yet this round in the on-going competition was seen by most as a side show to the series of high-level court cases involving just about every aspect of the race: who could take part, what the boats could be made of and where the material should come from.
