Woman loses assisted suicide case
Debbie Purdy on the court ruling
A woman with multiple sclerosis has lost her Appeal Court case to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
Debbie Purdy, 45, from Bradford, is considering going to a Swiss clinic to end her life, but fears her husband may be charged on his return to the UK.
She wanted clarification of where her husband, Omar Puente would stand legally if he helped her in any way.
But Ms Purdy said after the ruling: "I feel that I have won my argument, despite having lost the appeal."
I'm not prepared for him to face the British justice system without me
Debbie Purdy
She was diagnosed with primary progressive MS in 1995 and is now losing strength in her upper body. She has been in a wheelchair since 2001. More
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Child porn viewing Punishable with Five years jail and Rs. ten lakh fineh
Child porn viewers to be jailed
New IT Act broadens list of offences
By Jayant Mishra in Mumbai @ Monday, February 16, 2009 9:11 AM
Browsing child pornography sites is to become an offence in India, along with the creation or transmission of child pornography.
The newly-proposed Information Technology bill, which is awaiting presidential assent, will punish anyone publishing, creating, exchanging, downloading or browsing any electronic depiction of children in an "obscene or indecent or sexually explicit manner". Offenders are liable to five years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000,000.
This is the first time in nine years that the bill has been revised. Other changes include bringing cyber terrorism, identity theft and violation of privacy into the domain of cyber crime. Critics of the bill say that it will enable the government to snoop into citizens’ computers while investigating "any offence".
Section 67 of the existing act deals with "publishing obscene information in electronic form", but does not specifically define "pornography" or make it an offence. Child pornography is not even mentioned. But the revised avatar, Section 67B, proposes specifically to punish involvement in sexually explicit content that depicts children. It will also be an offence to "cultivate, entice or induce children to online relationship with other children for a sexual act."
Cybercrime experts believe that once the bill is introduced it will have a huge positive impact. The only fear is that innocent users who accidentally open a site could be branded offenders. Source
New IT Act broadens list of offences
By Jayant Mishra in Mumbai @ Monday, February 16, 2009 9:11 AM
Browsing child pornography sites is to become an offence in India, along with the creation or transmission of child pornography.
The newly-proposed Information Technology bill, which is awaiting presidential assent, will punish anyone publishing, creating, exchanging, downloading or browsing any electronic depiction of children in an "obscene or indecent or sexually explicit manner". Offenders are liable to five years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000,000.
This is the first time in nine years that the bill has been revised. Other changes include bringing cyber terrorism, identity theft and violation of privacy into the domain of cyber crime. Critics of the bill say that it will enable the government to snoop into citizens’ computers while investigating "any offence".
Section 67 of the existing act deals with "publishing obscene information in electronic form", but does not specifically define "pornography" or make it an offence. Child pornography is not even mentioned. But the revised avatar, Section 67B, proposes specifically to punish involvement in sexually explicit content that depicts children. It will also be an offence to "cultivate, entice or induce children to online relationship with other children for a sexual act."
Cybercrime experts believe that once the bill is introduced it will have a huge positive impact. The only fear is that innocent users who accidentally open a site could be branded offenders. Source
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Marriage rates fall to 21.6 per 1000 men and to 19.7 for 1,000 women
Marriage rates fall to record low
Marriage is at its lowest level since records began nearly 150 years ago, new figures showed.
By Nick Allen
Last Updated: 1:15PM GMT 12 Feb 2009
Marriage: The levels for men and women were the lowest since records were first kept in 1862.
High profile divorce cases, the escalating cost of weddings, and the failure of the Government to support the institution of marriage were among the factors blamed.
It is now likely that married couples will be in the minority by next year as people increasingly choose to live together out of wedlock.
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, for the year 2007 in England and Wales, showed that 21.6 men out of every 1,000 men got married, down from 23 the previous year. The rate for women was 19.7 per 1,000, down from 20.7 in 2006.
The levels for men and women were the lowest since records were first kept in 1862.
There were a total of 231,450 marriages in 2007, an annual fall of 3.3 per cent, and the lowest number since 1895 when the population was little more than half its present level.
The figures pre-date the current financial crisis which is likely to have exacerbated the downward trend in marriage as couples put off their weddings because of the cost.
Average costs for a wedding have more than doubled over the last decade to more than £21,000.
The Government has been accused of fuelling the breakdown of marriage by introducing changes to the tax and benefits system that left married couples up to £5,000-a-year worse off than people who stay single. Mpre
Marriage is at its lowest level since records began nearly 150 years ago, new figures showed.
By Nick Allen
Last Updated: 1:15PM GMT 12 Feb 2009
Marriage: The levels for men and women were the lowest since records were first kept in 1862.
High profile divorce cases, the escalating cost of weddings, and the failure of the Government to support the institution of marriage were among the factors blamed.
It is now likely that married couples will be in the minority by next year as people increasingly choose to live together out of wedlock.
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, for the year 2007 in England and Wales, showed that 21.6 men out of every 1,000 men got married, down from 23 the previous year. The rate for women was 19.7 per 1,000, down from 20.7 in 2006.
The levels for men and women were the lowest since records were first kept in 1862.
There were a total of 231,450 marriages in 2007, an annual fall of 3.3 per cent, and the lowest number since 1895 when the population was little more than half its present level.
The figures pre-date the current financial crisis which is likely to have exacerbated the downward trend in marriage as couples put off their weddings because of the cost.
Average costs for a wedding have more than doubled over the last decade to more than £21,000.
The Government has been accused of fuelling the breakdown of marriage by introducing changes to the tax and benefits system that left married couples up to £5,000-a-year worse off than people who stay single. Mpre
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