Scoping Exercise
Mark O’Conor reflects on SCL’s activities and looks forward to the forthcoming SCL Conference…
Intellectual Property
GDPR – an Unqualified Right to Rectification?
Jon Baines asks whether the FCA – or any data controller – can any longer argue that it’s too expensive to have to rectify inaccurate personal data…
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Artificial Intelligence: Who’s to blame?
Lynn Richmond looks at the way we apportion blame in law and the need for a reconsideration of the relevant law in the light of the development of AI. She goes on to bring the issue close to home by considering the liability of lawyers in the future AI-influenced practice of law…
Website Photos and Copyright
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the posting on a website of a photograph that was freely accessible on another website with the consent of the author requires a new authorisation by that author…
Product Review: Gemini – the Psion 2.0!
Dr W Kuan Hon has a new gadget and she loves it…
Could the English Courts Give Judgments in Bitcoin?
Looking across jurisdictions and back to the 18th century, Lawrence Akka QC and Henry Byam-Cook consider a question for the here and now…
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Commons Select Committee’s Interim Report on Disinformation and ‘fake news’
In a first interim report in its Disinformation and ‘fake news’ inquiry, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has issued a series of stark warnings and made a series of recommendations….
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Cloud and Other Digital Services Providers – Security & Incident Notification Obligations under the UK NIS Regulations, and GDPR comparison
Dr W Kuan Hon explains the impact of the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018…
Can Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Increase Privacy Protection?
There is a widely held view that blockchain and the GDPR may be incompatible. Ben Gibson suggests an approach that would increase privacy protection by virtue of the use of zero-knowledge protocols in the context of distributed ledger technology…
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House of Commons Public Accounts Committee Report on HMCTS Court Reform Programme
The Committee has little confidence in the ability of HMCTS to deliver the sweeping reforms and considers the £1.2 billion modernisation programme hugely ambitious…
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