An Irish court has granted an interlocutory injunction against Facebook and Google and required YouTube, Google, Facebook and a number of web sites to permanently remove a video and accompanying material which wrongly identified a man dodging a taxi fare and defamed him with a series of offensive comments…
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Joel Smith and Rachel Montagnon analyse and comment on the Supreme Court ruling in PRCA v NLA…
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Spurred by the recent ICO survey of business awareness of the EU DP reform package, Laurence Eastham has an awful confession…
The EU Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to Motorola Mobility relating to its potential misuse of mobile phone standard-essential patents…
Richard Harrison believes that the new costs management process fails to recognise litigation realities and puts far too much faith in Precedent H…
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This is a strong issue. In normal circumstances, I would be pleased with the fact that we have so many excellent reviews of recent IT law cases, two outstanding pieces on big data and related issues and provocative pieces on the very intriguing issues that arise from bots and drones. It is so strong that…
Mark Crichard reports on the extremely popular Master Class seminar on exclusion and limitation clauses held on 18 April…
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The Supreme Court has given judgment in the long-running dispute concerning the use by various PR companies of links to coverage of their clients in newspapers and whether their use required a licence from the Newspaper Licensing Agency. The judgment is a bit of a damp squib, ending up with a reference to the CJEU….
With litigation and internal investigations always at least conceivable, and perhaps just round the corner, Caroline Jan considers ways to manage data risks so as to limit the damage caused by a sudden crisis…
Ruth Baker looks back on her time as SCL’s kingpin as she retires after 25 years with the Society. See the end of the article for a selection from some of the tributes paid to Ruth’s work for SCL. A pdf of the version of this article which appears in the April/May issue of Computers & Law can be downloaded from the panel opposite….