Roger Bescoby and Mark Hodgson, members of the Governing Council of the Association of British Investigators, met with senior Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) personnel at the beginning of July in Wilmslow. The ABI Governing Council have been conscious that the Association would benefit from more direct dialogue with the ICO, and indeed all other stake-holder […]
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Private Investigator Hit With £89,000 Penalty
A man who ran a company that tricked organisations into revealing personal details about customers has today been ordered to pay a total of £20,000 in fines and prosecution costs, as well as a confiscation order of over £69,000 at a hearing at Isleworth Crown Court. Barry Spencer, 42, ran ICU Investigations Limited in Feltham, […]
Hiring a Private Investigator
Jonathan Rayner, a staff writer of the Law Society Gazette, explains what a law firm can do to distinguish between good and bad private investigators. Hiring a private investigator was once, to coin a phrase, elementary. You would take a hansom cab to 221B Baker Street. There would be no uncouth discussion of fees or, […]