The more I researched and considered the issue, the more convinced I became (as I thought I would) that indeed considerably more can be done with generic products than most firms probably appreciate and that this is going to increase steadily over the coming years. This is a debate whose time has truly come and…
The 19th-century French acrobat Charles Blondin once challenged a member of his audience to climb into a wheelbarrow he was about to push along a tightrope strung across Niagara Falls. Understandably, the terrified soul refused the invitation. Since taking the reins in late 2003, Stephen Carter and his team at OFCOM have embarked upon an…
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Jimmy Desai offers a short summary of the topics that all IT lawyers need to consider when advising on data centre contracts…
Richard Cumbley and Peter Church report and comment on the collision between traditional outsourcing settlement confidentiality and the new freedom of information regime…
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The regulatory limitations affecting international transfers of personal data have been a controversial issue since the early nineties. Even before the deadline for implementation of the 1995 Data Protection Directive kicked in, businesses across the European Union struggled to find a way to accommodate their normal data sharing and communication practices to the impending legislation….
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Kit Burden explains why IT security matters to technology lawyers or at least should matter. This article is based on his presentation to the Law Society of Scotland/SSCL Conference earlier this year…
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Childcare cases have often led the way in litigation procedure. Many long-standing care lawyers will say that they were agreeing single joint experts long before the Civil Procedure Rules were even thought of, necessitated by multiplicity of parties, complex medical evidence and numerous expert reports. Tony Roe reports that now the High Court has made a plea…
Victoria Cooper thinks that the Cresswell Report underestimates the attractions of tape back-up…
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Adam Westbrooke argues the importance of data tagging but explains that its importance does not dictate that it must be complex….
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The Legal Software Suppliers Association has commissioned a new survey in an attempt to establish what the drivers for change in law and technology are likely to be in the coming years…