The CJEU has ruled that the administrator of a ‘fan page’ is jointly responsible with Facebook for processing the personal data of persons visiting the page on Facebook…
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Hoi Tak Leung, our Associate Editor for Hong Kong and China, takes a fresh look at smart contracts and when or whether they are enforceable….
In the second in our series of articles on the impact of data protection in specific areas, Nicola Cain and Rupert Cowper-Coles look at publishing….
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Richard Susskind, current SCL President, offers a tribute to past president, Sir Henry Brooke CMG PC…
Many lawyers are ignorant of, or obviously uncomfortable with, the concepts underpinning agile. Nathan Evans helps with understanding those concepts and shares some of his insights gained from negotiating agile deals…
Inevitably it will transpire that mistakes will have been made by professionals giving (often very expensive) guidance on GDPR compliance. Their clients will want to consider whether a claim for professional negligence can be made. In this article Neil Hext QC, Stephen Innes and Helen Evans of 4 New Square discuss some of the issues which are likely to arise in such claims….
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An intriguing High Court judgment on an application for an injunction requiring a software supplier to provide access to business software from which the customer was locked out following an alleged breach of contract…
According to the European Court of Human Rights, police accessing subscriber information associated with a dynamic IP address breached a suspect’s human rights by failing to obtain a court order prior to access…
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SCL has been asking key figures from the tech law sector to answer five questions and posting their responses on its Facebook page. Their responses give an interesting insight into how they got their start and where they see the profession going and may provide some inspiration for those considering working in this area of law. In this, the first of a series that will appear in the magazine, we hear from Mark O’Conor, Sue McLean, Simon Deane-Johns and Neil Brown….
Iain Wilson gives us his in-depth analysis of NT1 and NT2 v Google Inc, where the delisting of search engine results was sought and which provides the first English decision on the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’…
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