As reported in the last issue, Richard Stephens was recently elected as SCL’s new Chairman. Once he was firmly ensconced, Laurence Eastham asked him a few questions about the prospects for SCL….
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Laurie Kaye recounts his experience of a Webinar and floats an interesting competition….
Given the complicated matters that are often resolved by a given piece of legislation, you might expect the resulting law to be able to easily, and with a high degree of certainty, determine whether an individual had said yes or no – particularly when the matter in question is not a serious criminal offence. Well, think again. Then extend that wooliness into the world of outsourcing and the problems begin to multiply, as Tim Pullan of Lawrence Graham explains….
Read More… from Data Protection and Offshore Outsourcing: Did he or didn’t he?
Stephen Deadman, Senior Solicitor at Vodafone, comments on a recent article and explains why he thinks the use of mobiles by minors carries little legal risk….
Read More… from Minors, Mobiles and the Law: Review comments
Privacy and anonymity are concepts that appear to be rapidly fading away into insignificance as networked communications become ubiquitous. This is an issue that is raised, together with the development of human rights, in the recent text Mapping the Global Future A Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project NIC 2004-13, December 2004). A…
Sarah Wood summarises and comments on this case, which concerned the allocation of jurisdiction in a trade mark claim, for the purposes of service out of the jurisdiction under CPR 6.20, where a contract intentionally contains no governing law or jurisdictional clause….
Read More… from Apple Corps Ltd v Apple Computer Inc: Jurisdiction
Duncan McCall and Thomas Crangle of 4 Pump Court use a recent Court of Appeal case to illustrate some aspects of the approach taken in practice to the interpretation of IT agreements….
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Justin Harness and Simon Levene give their personal insight on how law firms can use knowledge management to increase profitability. This is the third in a series of articles on ‘Knowledge for Successful Law Firms’, which is being developed by the SCL Knowledge Management Group. For more on this initiative, see vol 15, issue 2 ‘Will the Real Knowledge Management Please Step Forward!’….
Jeffrey S. Wolfe examines the push to resolve e-commerce disputes by ADR and the implications for consumers and for traditional dispute resolution….
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Jo Oliver reviews the Australian litigation over the famous, or infamous, file sharing application, Kazaa….