Coding for Lawyers
John McKinlay looks forward to a journey involving learning to code…
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Subject Access Requests and Unfair Dismissal
Clare Edwards reflects on a recent employment tribunal ruling…
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GDPR Conundrums: Processing Special Categories of Data
Lokke Moerel analyses the GDP’s provisions dealing with special categories of data and the crucial ambiguity surrounding when supervisory authorities need to be consulted…
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Intelligent Contracts – Is this the Way Forward?
While all commercial contracts are supposed to encapsulate some of the drafter’s intelligence, Kevin Gidney explains a concept that seeks to go beyond this (and beyond smart contracts) and make fuller use of artificial intelligence. He also highlights some possible applications for Intelligent Contracts….
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‘Durable Medium’ and Providing Information under the PSD
Chris Finney looks at a recent Attorney General’s Opinion and sees it as a useful prompt for financial services organisations to review their compliance with their duty to provide information to customers….
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SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law – Risk, Cyber and Computer Misuse
Quentin Tannock reports on the latest event in the Foundations of IT Law series (Module 7 – Cycle 2), held on 14 September 2016 and hosted by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Europe) LLP….
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Brexit, Copyright and Liminality
Laurence Kaye considers the likely impact on the UK of the proposals from the EU Commission for a new Copyright Directive…
VKI v Amazon: Governing Law
Robert Bond considers a recent CJEU judgment that considered governing law clauses in consumer contracts and gave further guidance on the meaning of ‘establishment’ in the data protection context…
Honouring the Breach
A recent appeal against a monetary penalty notice shows the need to recognise a data breach where the duty to notify applies…
GDPR and the ICO: Influenced or Independent?
Tim Turner looks at the strange shift in the ICO’s position on the GDPR which seems to raise important questions about the Information Commissioner’s independence….
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