What Every Technology Lawyer Needs to Know about IT Security
Kit Burden explains why IT security matters, or should matter….
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Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Trespass on the Web
Although there is a dearth of English judicial pronouncement about torts committed on or via the Internet, a number of decisions of US courts have considered the question of whether a cause of action in trespass lies against those who use and copy data from another’s Web site. Might similar results occur were such matters to be litigated here asks Helen Barnard…
The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 in Practice
The main provisions of the E-Commerce Directive have now been implemented in the UK. Guy Veysey, a solicitor in the IT & E-commerce group at City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, discusses how they will be applied….
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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….
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….