New Contract Guidance for Government IT Projects
Mark Turner and Dominic Callaghan condense the new government model contracts and guidance and highlight the key points….
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Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Trying IT Cases
HH Peter Bowsher QC answers the request to give a judge’s view of trying IT cases. He wishes to make it clear that he retired from the Bench in October 2003 and has ever since been practising as an arbitrator and dispute resolver in Keating Chambers but his views do contain many useful insights on the forensic and procedural aspects of IT litigation….
Getting Up Close and Personal
Gmail, A9.com and Blinkx are examples of the new privacy implications of personalised online advertising and advanced search engine technology. Eva Wong from Coudert Bros explores the new threat and opportunity….
Outsourcing Legal Services
John Angel asks “Is it really happening?” and “Should law firms be considering it?”…
Online Licensing of Entertainment and Information
Clive Davies reviews and comments upon the current state of online licensing of software and the associated legal implications and addresses the new models for the distribution of software as a service available on demand. He also contrasts some of the legal and other issues that apply to software with other online media in the music and film area….
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Does English Law Offer a Solution to the Problem of Spam?
This is the essay which won the SCL Student Essay Prize for Matthew Brewer….
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Big Brother Isn’t Watching You (Everybody Else Is)
The summer viewing of Big Brother enthralled and appalled. Hazel Randall looks at the show going on on your PC with the updates in Adware and Spyware, and other techniques for tracking what private and commercial PC users are doing….
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Future Gazing about the Internet and the Web
The SCL’s Internet Interest Group assembled an expert panel at Charles Russell to peer into the future of the Internet and the Web over the next five to ten years. Laurie Kaye of Laurence Kaye Solicitors, who was Panel Chairman and devised and organised the event, lent them the special SCL crystal ball….
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Current Issues in IT and Communications Law in China
Matthew Murphy gives a resumé of the current legal issues in the world’s most exciting economy….
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History Repeats Itself: Implementation of EU Data Protection Legislation in the Accession Countries
Although the accession countries have been swift to implement the data protection and e-privacy directives, a large majority have failed to implement them correctly in a number of important respects. Ironically, the areas of greatest departure are the same areas the Commission identified last year as the areas where the original 15 Member States had also fallen down. In a number of cases, the deficiencies are so great that the EU Member States are vulnerable to enforcement action by the EU Commission for failure to implement the directives as required. Richard Cumbley and Tanguy Van Overstraeten of Linklaters explain….