Data Protection Update

Rosemary Jay is a Senior Consultant at Masons (Manchester) and was formerly Adviser to the Data Protection Registrar. She may be contacted at rosemary.jay@masons.com. Implementation of the Directives The Data Protection Act 1998, the Telecommunication (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999 and the various statutory instruments supporting the legislation which had previously been issued in…

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Snapshots from Lawtel

As part of our declared aim to keep readers aware of the latest cases, we publish brief case summaries of IT cases reported on Lawtel over the past few months. The full report of Britannia Building Society v Prangley (2000) LTL 12/6/2000, covering domain name disputes, is also included. All of the full reports include…

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Making New Law in Scotland – Digital Law and the New Parliament

John Sibbald of Professional Library Services, Chairman of theSociety’s Scottish Group, reports on the Conference held in Edinburgh on 31January 2000, which was organised by the Scottish Group and the Governance ofScotland Forum of the University of Edinburgh. The new Scottish Parliament has a unique opportunity to modernise the law ofScotland by the use of…

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More Buzzwords Busted

Delia Venables is a computer consultant for lawyers and is alsoeditor of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers and other Internet publicationsand co-author, with Nick Holmes, of the Butterworths book Researching the LegalWeb. She can be contacted on 01273 472424 or delia@venables.co.ukand her web pages are at http://www.venables.co.uk This article is the second of an occasional…

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