Challenges to Database Information Retrieval – Do We Need a World Information Treaty and Tribunal?
Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Transferring data through model contracts: original clauses v alternative clauses
Eduardo Ustaran considers the required safeguards in contracts concerning transfer of data abroad…
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Transcript of SCL’s 30th Anniversary Lecture by Richard Christou
This is the edited transcript of Richard Christou’s lecture on the occasion of the SCL’s 30th Anniversary….
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UK – Outsourcing Settlement Terms Revealed In Full 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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Another Salutary Warning on Exclusion Clauses
On 19 May 2004, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the case of Price Waterhouse v The University of Keele [2004] EWCA Civ 583. The decision considered the scope of Price Waterhouses’ (PW) limitation and exclusion clause in its terms of engagement with the University of Keele. Mark Lewis and Charlotte Hinton see lessons for the IT world….
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Human Rights in the Digital Age
Stephen Mason reviews Human Rights in the Digital Age, edited by Mathias Klang and Andrew Murray (Glasshouse Press, 2005) ISBN 1-90438-531-1…
How People Really Use Law Firm Web Sites
Joe Reevy analyses data on what visitors actually do when they visit a law firm site – as opposed to what you think they should do….
SSCL Meeting Report: 21 March 2002
SSCL continued their monthly series of themed meetings, this time looking at the civil side of software industry issues. There were two speakers for the evening: Lorne Byatt looked at legal success factors from an in-house counsel standpoint, whilst Jeremy Warner focused on software licensing issues….
Legal Aspects of Information Security Management
In internet commerce[1] where technology risks such as systems failure or attacks are particularly accentuated and the “risk turnaround time” is much faster, the need to design and develop a proactive and structured legal protection regime has become a corporate imperative. Zaid Hamzah points the way forward in designing and developing a legal risk management system in Internet commerce at both the strategic as well as the operational level that would protect enterprises from legal problems that might flow from information security risks….
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The Application of Information Technology
In this piece, Alastair Morrison reviews the pressures on solicitors and the courts arising from IT implementation. He analyses the position of smaller firms and looks at the prospects for XML and AI. This was originally submitted as a dissertation for the degree of LLM at the University of Strathclyde. It is rare for SCL to accept such material but this is a useful examination of various commentators’ views….