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Electronic Signatures: The Technical and Legal Ramifications

January 1, 2000

Stephen Mason is a Barrister who specialises in e-commerce,Information Technology and contract law. He is also a consultant to KaltonsSolicitors. Telephone 01462 701098 or 020 7278 1817; email scwm@scwm.co.uk. The fourth edition of his e-book, ‘The Year 2000: A guide tothe legal issues for business’ is available as a free download from www.reachoutmedia.com.The third edition…

Wendy Beecham – New Head of Sweet & Maxwell/Westlaw UK

January 1, 2000

Wendy Beecham was interviewed by Laurence Eastham, themagazine’s Co-ordinating Editor. The arrival of a new MD at Sweet & Maxwell, the oldest legal publisher,is not an obvious source of news for SCL’s members – a brief snippetperhaps, but hardly grounds for a full-scale interview. In fact such has beenthe frequency of change in that post…

Snapshots from Lawtel

January 1, 2000

As part of our declared aim to keep readers aware of the latest cases, we publish brief summaries of the IT cases covered by Lawtel in October and November, plus one hot case from December.

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From the Editor’s Chair

January 1, 2000

Millennium Legal Motorway The lasting mark for the millennium in my immediate neighbourhood is asweeping bridge and revitalised railway track – Black Dog Halt, the redundantstation, is now part of the scenery on the Millennium Cycleway. It seemed to mea fitting way to celebrate the event – something useful and lasting whichwould improve the quality…

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Domain Name: Passive Holding

January 1, 2000

Melonie Atraghji gives a brief account of one aspect of a recent domain name case, Global Projects Management Limited and another v Citigroup Inc and others, 17 October 2005….

Limitation Clauses, Restitution and Doomed Computer Systems

November 1, 1999

The recent case of South West Water v ICL has provoked intense interest and Nick Sarker analyses it for us….

E- Commerce and its Impact on Pricing

November 1, 1999

Ben Goodger is a Partner at Willoughby & Partners. He may becontacted at ben@iprights.com ‘A long time ago – maybe last Thursday…’ is how one of the Winnie thePooh stories starts. It’s a bit like that with any discussion of the world ofe-commerce. There are bound to be things in this article which are out-of-dateby…

MARS #2: Is there life in Mars?

November 1, 1999

Richard Harrison is a partner in Laytons, a firm of solicitorswith four offices nationwide. He can be contacted on 0171 842 8000 or richardh@laytons.com The last issue contained William Cook’s detailed review of the implicationsof Mars UK Limited v Teknowledge Limited (11 June 1999). This was asuperb analysis of both the issue of confidence in…

Intellectual Property in a Peripheral Jurisdiction

November 1, 1999

Annual Lecture to the Scottish Group of Society for Computers & Law, 22 June 1999…

Beyond Technological Solutions for the Protection of Confidential Commercial Information on the Internet

November 1, 1999

C D Freedman is Herchel Smith Research Fellow in the Law ofIntellectual Property at Emmanuel College. He can be contacted at EmmanualCollege, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3AP or via e-mail at cdf25@cam.ac.uk The Internet is no place for secrets, commercial or otherwise. It is reasonable to assume that by now all prudent business people…