The Leveson Report included a series of recommendations which related to data protection issues, and might have a considerable impact on data protection regulation in the UK. The Information Commissioner’s Office has now published its response to the relevant parts of the Report….
Here is a selection of the online predictions made by our contributors. All relate to IT for law firms, e-disclosure or related issues….
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A set of predictions, mainly from practising IT lawyers but with a few academics too, which range widely but include predictions on the developments expected in IT law….
I do not often complain about my contributors. The Eastham office’s, non-secular, daily assembly normally includes grateful thanks to those who have supplied copy for the web site and magazine; printouts of their photographs are central to a small shrine in the corner of my office. But I was a bit shocked by the reaction…
These may be the last set of predictions of 2012 – it is hard to predict that far in advance. But we have quality predictions from John Salmon, Pearse Ryan and Stephen Mason and it would be appropriate if SCL President Richard Susskind did indeed turn out to be our last contributor for 2012….
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William Richmond-Coggan sees the law keeping up with technology, underlines the warnings from the Lord McAlpine debacle and demolishes a few myths, including the myth of a luddite legal system…
Paul Lambert looks across the world at various cases involving Google and takes a look at its claim to defences and denial of liability…
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that restriction of Internet access without a strict legal framework regulating the scope of the ban and affording the guarantee of judicial review to prevent possible abuses amounts to a violation of freedom of expression…
Just as we started with a set of predictions from one firm (DLA Piper), we are closing (probably) with a set from lawyers at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP. Even if you are fed up with predictions by now, it is worth making an effort for this set of perceptive forecasts that go outside our normal comfort zone….
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Steve Ross tells us what issues business want dealt with in the European Commission’s standardised terms and conditions for cloud services, and why….