Editorial
Making a call for more contributions, Laurence Eastham thinks it’s time to revisit the GDPR and just about time to speculate about the effect of Brexit…
Intellectual Property
Database Rights Regulations: Protecting Investment Risk
Database Rights Regulations: Protecting Investment Risk…
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LSLA and Bar Report on Technology in the Civil Courts
At the end of June this year, the London Solicitors Litigation Association and selected members of the Bar published a joint report, The Practitioner Working Group Report on Investment in Technology in the Civil Courts of England and Wales. The report was commented on by Lord Justice Brooke in his speech to the LSLA and is available in full as a Web article on the SCL site….
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Software Correction and the Year 2000 Problem
Zaccheaus Knox-Hooke is a barrister who specialises in IT law and related matters. He was for many years a programmer, analyst and projectmanager. He has a thorough knowledge of programming languages, structure andtechniques as well as systems development. He is currently Year 2000 lawyer fora major city financial institution. He can be contacted on zaccheaus@btinternet.com….
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The Application of Information Technology
In this piece, Alastair Morrison reviews the pressures on solicitors and the courts arising from IT implementation. He analyses the position of smaller firms and looks at the prospects for XML and AI. This was originally submitted as a dissertation for the degree of LLM at the University of Strathclyde. It is rare for SCL to accept such material but this is a useful examination of various commentators’ views….
Crown Copyright Consultation: SCL Response
The SCL has about 2,700 members drawn from the following groups
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Professional Services Firms Must Change
John Kay of PA Consulting Group believes that gradual but inexorable change in client expectations and the business environment means more of the same is no longer enough….
Seamless Roaming and the Legal Organisation: Choosing a Partner
Andrea Pointing of ITNET looks at the use of mobile and remote technologies to create a seamless roaming strategy and describes the criteria for choosing a partner for such a venture….
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Computers and the Law – New principles or the same principles in a different context?
Professor Ewan McKendrick gave a lecture to the SCL London Group on 22 September covering certain developments in contract law as they affect IT lawyers. This is the edited text of that lecture. SCL is grateful to him, both for granting permission for the text to be made available on the Web site and for the considerable work involved in converting that text into this form. SCL is also grateful to Wordwave for its transcription of the lecture….
Stemming the Peer To Peer Outflow at Source – maybe
David Flint examines the import of the MGM v Grokster decision….
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