Data-orientated Contracts
Akber Datoo explains how a new mindset is needed for contracts if they are to be effective in a data-driven world….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
EU Adopts Ban on Unjustified Geo-Blocking
Lars Kjolbye, Elisabetta Righini and Peter Citron bring us up to speed on this important new Regulation that seeks to underpin the Digital Single Market…
Digital Ambition: HM Land Registry’s Digital Transformation Programme and the Path to Electronic Conveyancing and Registration
Richard Oliphant asks if the provision of HM Land Registry’s new digital services- using its own purpose-built PKI e-signature solution – can be augmented by partnerships with commercial e-signature platforms….
Move on Up*
Mark O’Conor, the SCL Chair, on the Society’s new home, added potential and some exciting things to come….
Is Singapore’s Digital transformation of the legal sector making progress?
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore Associate Editor, reviews the progress of their 5 year plan for legal digital transformation…
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Triple Jump over Data Protection Fees
At the time of the consultation of the new regime for data protection fees, the maximum fee was floated as £1000. The draft fees regulations suggest a maximum fee of £2900. Laurence Eastham bemoans his ignorance of the process that led to a leap that would leave Jonathan Edwards in awe…
EU Commission Recommendation on Operational Measures to Tackle Illegal Content Online
The European Commission has published its recommendation on operational measures to tackle illegal content online…
Covert CCTV at Work: is this ever possible?
Gwynneth Tan and Michael Briggs consider decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, which recently held that covert CCTV infringed a worker’s right to a private life. A previous decision of the same court permitted use of covert CCTV. They ask where employers stand…
Editorial – February/March 2018
Laurence Eastham reviews this issue and some of the matters that we will be covering in the future…
Digital Currencies Inquiry
A committee of MPs is to investigate cryptocurrencies and the like…