Scottish Courts Online

John Gailey of Advanced Recognition Ltd, Member Scottish GroupCommittee & John Sibbald of Professional Library Services, Chairman of theScottish Group consider the new Scottish Court Web site (www.scotcourts.gov.uk),launched on 24 February, which marked a milestone in the justice system not onlyfor Scotland but for the United Kingdom as a whole. The authors review the siteand…

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Home and Away

Michael Robinson is IT Director at Bevan Ashford. You cancontact him on m.robinson@bevanashford.co.uk In common with many organisations, Bevan Ashford is experiencing asteady rise in the number of staff requiring remote access to our systems. Withmobile and remote working becoming so common-place you would imagine that itwould be simple to implement; well it is and…

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Future Regulation of E-commerce and Commercial Communications in the EU

Iain G. Mitchell QC, a member of the Scottish Committee of theSociety for Computers and Law, Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Lawyers’ EuropeanGroup, and a Senior Counsel at the Scottish Bar with an extensive civilpractice, reports on a joint meeting of the Scottish Group and the ScottishLawyers’ European Group held in Edinburgh on Thursday 22 January…

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What Remedies are Available for a Supplier if its Rights in Software are Innocently Infringed?

Jonathan Carter Shaw is a solicitor in Manches’ IT group and isbased in Oxford. He can be contacted by telephone on 01865 722 106 or by e-mailon jonathan.cartershaw@manches.co.uk In Microsoft Corporation v Plato Technology Limited [1999]Masons CLR 87, the High Court stated that,where a person had infringedintellectual property rights in software, the relief it would…

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