Monkeys, Dartboards and Predictions
Reviewing the predictions published on the SCL web site over the last few years suggests that nearly all of the next lot of predictions will be wrong. But don’t let that stop you from trying to get it right….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Privacy Impact Assessments Consultation: SCL Response
SCL’s response to the ICO’s call for views on its Code of Practice for conducting Privacy Impact Assessments has now been published…
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Data Protection Monetary Penalties: Absolutely Criminal?
In the space of little more than eight weeks, the Information Rights Tribunal has recently quashed two ‘Civil Monetary Penalties’ totalling £550,000. Paul Motion and Laura Irvine consider the decisions and argue that such Monetary Penalties are properly categorised as criminal, with significant consequences for both the Information Commissioner and a data controller under investigation for a data protection breach. See also the authors’ article ‘Cake or Death?’…
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Data Protection Regulation: Is it On or Off?
Dr Chris Pounder speculates on the likely fate of the EU plans for data protection reform…
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Book Review: A Copyright Masquerade
Laurence Eastham reviews the latest publication from Dr Monica Horten…
Accessibility of Web Site Content and EU Jurisdiction Ruling
Joel Smith and Alexandra Leriche consider the CJEU ruling in Pinckney v Mediatech, where jurisdiction in online copyright infringement cases was said to depend on the accessibility of web site content…
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Data Protection MPNs: ‘Substantial Damage or Substantial Distress’
A ruling by the First-tier Tribunal on an appeal against a monetary penalty notice calls into question the ICO’s assessment of when it is appropriate to issue a monetary penalty notice…
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Latest ECJ Ruling on Consumer Protection and Cross-border Sales
In a new ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union has held that a consumer may sue a foreign trader with whom he has concluded a contract before the national courts where it is established that the trader has directed his activities to the consumer’s State, even if the means used to so direct his activities were not the basis for the conclusion of the contract…
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SCL Annual Conference 2013 Report: In a Few Words
David Chaplin reports on the SCL Annual Conference 2013, ‘All the IT Law you need for 2014’…
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Be Trained . . . Get Accredited: Introducing the SCL Foundations of IT Law Programme
Practising IT Law is not for the faint-hearted. At any moment you could be asked to advise on any number of issues, from the liabilities and risks in an IT supply contract, through data protection of employee records to complex e-commerce issues. All the advice you give must be thoroughly grounded in the relevant law…
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