This article is the product of an exchange between Nick Holmes of Infolaw and Sir Henry Brooke, retiring chairman of the BAILII trustees. It deals with a number of issues relating to BAILII and how it operates, including issues raised in a recent piece in the Guardian….
Laurence Eastham talked to two new entrants in the still emerging field of online solutions to legal problems for consumers. Tom Hiskey and Rob Blake are the founders of The Law Wizard, the company behind forthcoming online probate tool The Probate Wizard. Tom is a probate lawyer who resigned from his job as a practising solicitor in the Yorkshire region to start The Law Wizard with Rob. Rob provides the technical vision – he is a specialist in cloud computing and system development….
Simon Taylor and Lucas Bornico look at cloud computing from the perspective of competition law…
In the latest article in our Back to Basics series, Christoff Pienaar looks at IP warranties and some of the issues that go with the transfer of IP rights….
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A head-spinning day at the SCL Conference…
The Court of Justice has held that a clause in a selective distribution contract banning the products from being sold online amounts to a restriction on competition by object, unless that clause is objectively justified…
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The first meeting of the SCL Media Group was a resounding success, with a number of big name speakers giving valuable insights into the issues surrounding phone hacking….
How does the law treat temporary copies of copyright protected material? Toby Headdon offers a careful analysis of the main relevant provisions and recent cases touching on the issue….
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The judgment in Re Halliburton Energy Services Inc is now available and includes a thorough review of the cases as well as a forthright view on certain arguments in the long-running debate on mental act and computer-related exclusions…
Jaani Riordan gives a brief account of the many fascinating contributions to the SCL Policy Forum, held in London on 15 and 16 September….
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