E-Business – A Practical Guide to the Law by Amanda C. Brock
A review of a new book from Amanda C. Brock by Helen Hart….
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Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Offshore Outsourcing – Learning From Experience
Outsourcing continues to be a high growth activity for many UK businesses, especially in relation to IT and telecoms functions. All the surveys researching the drivers for outsourcing appear to confirm that the main one continues to be the need to reduce cost in order to remain competitive. For the moment at least the most…
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Challenges to Database Information Retrieval
Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….
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Editorial
Even the least observant are bound to notice a new look to the magazine. We have redesigned and now celebrate the fact that the world is enriched by colour. I am delighted to welcome a new design from Ken Planter and hope that we can do it justice with articles of matching vibrancy. For those…
SCL – THIRD ANNUAL IT LAW CONFERENCE
John Yates explains how “fun” and ” IT law” will go together at the SCL Conference to be held in Bath on 14th and 15th November….
Backbytes
Sam’s song. I missed writing about the issue before last which was packed with IT contract cases. One of the most interesting comments was Richard Stephens on SAM v Hedley, a case which looked at the legal status of bugs in software, the effect of “entire agreement” clauses and the validity of limitation of liability…
Is There a Duty to Warn?
Those involved in advising in the context of systems and outsourcing disputes can find a lot of inspiration in the cases coming out of the Technology and Construction Court – even when those cases deal with purely construction matters. Many IT lawyers remain unaware of them, and this article from Richard Stevens is intended to highlight one aspect of a supplier’s (or service provider’s) duty: the so-called duty to warn….
Small firm IT – a (better) service is needed
Although originally drafted at the start of the year (as a result of research into law firm IT) the relevance of this article by Alistair Morrison has recently been confirmed by the publication of a Law Society investigation into ITC in small to medium-sized firms. (Research Study 46 – see www.research.lawsociety.org.uk.) The Society’s report, like this paper, highlights problems facing such firms. This article additionally suggests some potential avenues of relief. Most practitioners and commentators now accept that IT is not an optional extra, and may indeed hold the only route to future profitability. The purpose of this article is to suggest a way in which the necessity which is IT can be made less awkward for small law firms….
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Live Streamed Sex Videos
Angus Hamilton contemplates the legality of live streamed video containing sexual activity in the UK….
Employee IT Inventors: Sharing in the profits?
Dr Rosanna Cooper looks at proposed changes to the UK Patents Act 1977 and reviews the current law on employee inventors….
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