Kit Burden and John McKinlay review current market practice on limitation of liability and raise some fundamental questions about widely accepted arguments and the ‘standard’ drafting that too often goes unquestioned….
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Dino Wilkinson analyses the new draft privacy law published in Qatar…
Questions arising from the June/July issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL31 – 1 hour 30 minutes…
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The Information Commissioner has launched a consultation on changes to monetary penalties guidance and has issued draft revised guidance…
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Playboy’s claim that videos on its web site were too explicit for ATVOD regulation has failed. This is an edited version of an article which first appeared on OUTLAW.COM, the news service from Pinsent Masons….
BAILII needs funds. Its value to each to us is real but we have begun to take it for granted. Without substantial new funding, BAILII could fold in just a few years. We asked a small group of BAILII users what they liked about it….
BAILII There may be those who think that a blog post on the BAILII appeal for funds and a short contribution from me to the BAILII appeal article at p 5 are more than enough. But I don’t think I have said enough. On top of its usefulness to me personally, which I mention in…
Now firmly established as a leading event on the calendar for both IT law academics and IT law practitioners, the SCL Forum 2011 will grapple with Internet law reform. While a combination of blue-sky thinking and grounded, practical views sounds like a recipe for disaster, experience shows that it leads to a very special event….
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In Case C-212/08 Zeturf Ltd v Premier minister, the Court of Justice of the European Union has dealt with a claim brought by a Malta-based company effectively challenging a statutory monopoly on betting on French horse races. The judgment follows the familiar line that such a monopoly can be justified if it is aimed at combating the dangers linked to games of chance. The Court goes on to say that the restriction on the freedom to provide services constituted by such a monopoly must be assessed in relation to all the marketing channels for that betting….
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Nicola Fulford reports on the SCL Privacy & Data Protection Group meeting of 23 June that was subtitled ‘Mitigating Bribery Act Risk and staying data privacy compliant…