Claim CPD for reading Computers & Law From February next year you will be able to transform the time you spend reading Computers & Law into CPD. This new member benefit will be available with the launch of the revamped SCL Web site, scheduled for release at the end of January 2006. The CPD scheme…
Kit Burden asks if the outsourcing charabanc has run out of fuel, and whether there are times when the best alternative might be found close to home….
Dr Christine Riefa examines the eBay phenomenon, its legal classification and the implications for consumer protection….
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Philip Nolan and Suzanne Carter review the taxation attractions for IT companies in Ireland….
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Duncan Ogilvy and Elizabeth West examine the use of KM tools and techniques to maximise the commercial advantage from knowledge about clients. This is the last in the series of articles on “Knowledge for Successful Law Firms”, which have been developed by the SCL Knowledge Management Group. For more on that initiative, see vol 15, issue 2 ‘Will the Real Knowledge Management Please Step Forward!’….
Paul Foley and Davina Garrod consider the impact of a new breed, mobile virtual network operators, and their impact on the market. They also consider some of the legal issues to which transactions concerning them give rise….
Sally Hui and Simon Stokes comment on the implications of the rulings in BHB v William Hill, the long running case which completed its final furlong in the Court of Appeal in July….
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Laurence Eastham spoke to Roger De Boehmler, Director General of PISCES (the Property Information Systems Common Exchange Standard), about the future of the standard and the barriers in the way of a further acceleration in progress….
Clive Freedman reports on the inaugural conference of the Working Group formed to consider issues relating to international electronic information management, discovery and disclosure…
It is good to find causes for optimism as the awful realisation dawns that the nights are drawing in. The last couple of weeks produced a few positive reasons to think that IT in the law is making headway, and that SCL’s role is being appreciated. My first source of optimism is the massive rise…