Prepare for European Data Protection Reform
Richard Graham reviews the likely targets for data protection reform and suggests that it is time to get ready to meet the challenges reform will bring…
Lawtech & Lawyers
The Legal Case for PDF/A
Gary Hodkinson highlights the problems with digital document archiving, explains how the US is leading the way in enforcing new document archiving legislation and why the UK needs to be prepared…
Creating an Online Legal Tool
Laurence Eastham talked to two new entrants in the still emerging field of online solutions to legal problems for consumers. Tom Hiskey and Rob Blake are the founders of The Law Wizard, the company behind forthcoming online probate tool The Probate Wizard. Tom is a probate lawyer who resigned from his job as a practising solicitor in the Yorkshire region to start The Law Wizard with Rob. Rob provides the technical vision – he is a specialist in cloud computing and system development….
A Clear Framework and a Flexible Horizon: Sir Vivian Ramsey Presents a Judge’s View of IT Disputes
Joanna Goodman reports on the SCL meeting of 19 October where Sir Vivian Ramsey, Head of the Technology and Construction Court, shared his perspective on IT disputes…
Litigation Trends: Privacy, Data Protection & E-Disclosure
The Fulbright & Jaworski 2011 Litigation Trends Survey has some interesting insights on privacy, data protection and e-disclosure….
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Cloud Computing: Competition Law Challenges
Simon Taylor and Lucas Bornico look at cloud computing from the perspective of competition law…
Freedom of Information: To Have is to Hold?
Marion Oswald looks at the implications for FOI obligations of using private e-mail for public work, and wonders how FOI and the Cloud fit together….
A Chapter of My Life
Jeremy Holt reflects on the experience of producing an IT law book…
In Defence of the Cloud
Eduardo Ustaran shares his views on the reported tension between EU data protectionists and the Cloud….
The Guessing Game
Eduardo Ustaran has been talking to people who matter in Brussels and is beginning to get an idea of what the future EU data protection framework may look like…