Tim Pullan is a solicitor in the IT Telecoms Group at ArnheimTite & Lewis. He may be contacted at tim.pullan@uk.pwcglobal.com. On 12 July, the Government announced that the UK Data Protection Act 1998will come into force on the 1 March 2000. This announcement has ended months ofspeculation about the start date for the new legislation,…
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William Cook is a solicitor in the Intellectual Property andCommunications Groups at Simmons & Simmons, with particular experience inpatent litigation and advice relating to copyright and other forms of protectionof computer software. The recent decision in Mars UK Ltd v Teknowledge (11 June 1999) raisesimportant issues for companies making goods containing computer software, inparticular concerning…
Sarah Ahmed is a Partner and Head of the Commercial Departmentat Anthony Gold Lerman & Muirhead. She can be contacted on 0171 940 4000. Management consultancy, including computer consultancy, is one of theso-called ‘new professions’ who can buy insurance labelled ‘professionalindemnity’ to underwrite their competence. The case of Stephenson Blake (Holdings) Ltd v Streets Heaver…
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John Gailey of Advanced Recognition Ltd, Member Scottish GroupCommittee & John Sibbald of Professional Library Services, Chairman of theScottish Group consider the new Scottish Court Web site (www.scotcourts.gov.uk),launched on 24 February, which marked a milestone in the justice system not onlyfor Scotland but for the United Kingdom as a whole. The authors review the siteand…
Heather Rowe is a Partner at Lovell White Durrant….
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Iain G. Mitchell QC, a member of the Scottish Committee of theSociety for Computers and Law, Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Lawyers’ EuropeanGroup, and a Senior Counsel at the Scottish Bar with an extensive civilpractice, reports on a joint meeting of the Scottish Group and the ScottishLawyers’ European Group held in Edinburgh on Thursday 22 January…
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We should be thankful that the UK government has at last abandoned key escrow.It is worrying that they ever took it seriously. It is clear from the recent ‘Building trust in electronic commerce’consultative paper that they do not fully understand the technology or the waythe internet market needs to work. On presentation of a suitable…
John and Rosemary are partners with Oxley & Coward, a nicheIT law firm (www.oxcow.co.uk)….
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Harjinder S. Obhi BSc, PhD (physics) is a solicitor specialising in Intellectual Property law at Bristows, 3 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LondonWC2A 3AA(harjinder.obhi@bristows.co.uk)….
A Report for the Government Study Fellowship, by Ian Burdon. The Registers of Scotland
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