JISC Legal : News

The code of practice aims to assist those in an organisation with responsibility for web products and for promoting and supporting equality and inclusion in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

WIPO has agreed on a work programme that could lead to an international treaty involving mandatory exceptions for the benefit of users of copyright works. 

These Top Ten Tips were created to celebrate JISC Legal's 10th anniversary, all the while looking forward to the challenges UK FE and HE will face in the next ten years.

JISC Techdis has just released a guidance document on complying with equality duty in which JISC Legal has contributed guidance on the Equality Act 2010.

Authoritative statutory guidance published on equal pay, employment, and services, public functions and associations. 

The Act includes new measures for discrimination, harassment, recruitment and pay.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has issued specific guidance for education providers, employers, workers, service providers and service users.  

A CD containing sensitive personal data was discovered at a bus stop and was unencrypted with no password protection.

A consultation by the GEO seeks views on proposals for draft regulations on the new public sector equality duty.

Equality Act implementation will go ahead as planned, the Government Equalities Office announces.

On 8 April 2010 the Equality Act received royal assent after completing its parliamentary process.

Every single YouTube video with English language audio can now support captioning created by speech recognition software thus improving the sites accessibility for videos. 

The Royal Bank of Scotland recently lost their appeal against the decision that they were in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.  

An event designed to resolve the legal challenges of creating and sharing open educational resources. 

JISC Digital Media announce the launch of their new service Video Assist.

New measures are introduced expanding the existing criteria for the Disabled Students Allowance.

The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh will be the new location for the Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries (ALDL).

The UK government has been criticised for failing to ratify the UN Convention on the rights of people with disabilities.