Monetary Penalty for NHS Trust
An NHS trust has had to pay a monetary penalty of £90,000 for a breach of the Data Protection Act 1998….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Outsourcing and TUPE
Rex Parry and Philip Davies consider how outsourcing may be affected by a new EAT TUPE decision that has obvious implications across the board, including for those in the IT sector…
Negotiated Cloud Contracts: Cloud Legal Project’s Latest Report
QMUL’s Cloud Legal Project has released its report of research into negotiated cloud contracts, offering its insights into the key areas negotiated by cloud users and the development of the cloud market…
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Queen’s Speech: Communications Data Bill
Some further details on the proposed legislation have become available, and we have initial comments…
SAS v WPL: No Copyright says ECJ
The functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright according to the latest judgment from the ECJ. The purchaser of a licence for a program is entitled, as a rule, to observe, study or test its functioning so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program….
First Monetary Penalty for NHS Body
A Welsh health board has become the first NHS organisation to be served a monetary penalty following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office said on 30 April….
How Card-based Merchant Acquiring Really Works
A review of the Payment Services Directive by the European Commission provides an opportunity for Simon Deane-Johns to clarify its scope by reference to how the major card schemes actually work….
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G-Cloud v1: Cloud Legal Project’s Analysis
QMUL’s Cloud Legal Project has released its analysis of the UK G-Cloud v1 and highlights key cloud issues…
The 12 Cs of Cloud Computing: A Culinary Confection
Kuan Hon summarises some fundamentally important elements of cloud computing and clarifies with culinary comparators. Don’t read this article when you are hungry!…
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SCL 7th Annual Policy Forum: “Brave New Worlds: Computer and Communications Law Reform”
Chris Marsden explains why the next SCL Policy Forum, to be held on 13/14 September 2012, will be special, even more special than normal, and why it is likely to be a major influence on the IT law agenda….