Counterfeit and Forgery

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Susan and Leah Griffiths ran an online shop called Leah's Boutique selling counterfeit goods

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/lfc-adidas-chanel-ugg-goods-17774924?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

More than 350 packets of suspected counterfeit tobacco worth more than £7,000 was found during a raid in Oldbury.

Copyright holders will welcome a recent ruling that clarified that injunctions imposed on infringers can be broader in scope than the specific infringements those infringers have been found liable for, a copyright law expert has said.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/court-backs-general-copyright-injunction

Tens of thousands of pounds worth of suspected fake children's toys, designer clothes, trainers and perfume, and thousands of cigarettes were seized in a series of raids across Tyneside last week.

https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/14272/Joint-raid-uncovers-counterfeit-designer-goods-and-tobacco

Controversial new EU copyright laws will not be implemented in the UK despite it having previously voted in favour of the reforms, a government minister confirmed earlier this week.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/brexit-sees-uk-diverge-on-eu-copyright-reforms

Zemnako Azad Salih pleaded guilty to seven counts, admitting he knowingly possessed and sold tobacco that was counterfeit and illegal

Fake branded make-up containing traces of lead were among a haul of more than 1,000 counterfeit goods seized by Isle of Wight Council Trading Standards officers in an undercover sting, which has seen Steven Mather and Michelle Aldridge appear in court.

https://www.islandecho.co.uk/isle-of-wight-duo-sentenced-after-counterfeit-goods-sting-in-east-cowes/

The new year is giving scammers an easy way to forge documents, but you can protect yourself with an easy New Year’s resolution: Don’t abbreviate the year. Why? This year’s abbreviation is easily changeable and could be used against you. The concern is that scammers could easily manipulate a document dated “1/1/20” into “1/1/2000″ or even “1/1/2021.”

https://www.ellwoodcityledger.com/news/20200105/stop-abbreviating-2020-police-say-it-leaves-you-open-to-fraud-and-could-cost-you-big

Half of apprenticeship courses in England have been accused of being "fake" by an education think tank.