Predictions 2006: More Technology, More Protection
Based upon the last few months in 2005, Jimmy Desai offers his predictions for 2006….
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IT Outsourcing – Ten Risk Issues the Irish Perspective
Pearse Ryan suggests you get your ducks in a row and makes nine other constructive suggestions for happy outsourcing. This article first appeared in the Ernst & Young eZine Risk Management (November 2005)….
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Transferring data through model contracts: original clauses v alternative clauses
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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IT SECURITY – What Every Technology Lawyer Needs to Know about IT Security
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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New Classicism? Freedom of Contract, Risk Distribution and Recent Trends in the Drafting of IT Contracts
“Freedom of contract has fallen, but I cannot believe that it has fallen that far” remarked HHJ Bowsher in Grovedeck Ltd v Capital Demilition Ltd. Although his remark was expressed in a different context, Adrian Hughes and James Bowling take the view that freedom of contract is on the march again in the approach of the courts to clauses allocating risk in IT contracts…
10 Dangers in Data Centre Contracts
Jimmy Desai offers a short summary of the topics that all IT lawyers need to consider when advising on data centre contracts…
Outsourcing Settlement Terms Revealed under FOIA
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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Unfair Contract Terms Bill
Victoria Ford reviews the draft Bill on unfair contract terms. Will standard terms and conditions be worth the paper they are written on when the proposed new unfair contract terms legislation comes into force? The IT industry has had many brushes with UCTA over the years and is likely to be keenly affected by developments….
Insourcing – Reversing the Trend?
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….