Deep Thought
Our increasing exposure as IT lawyers and indeed as human beings to the exponential advance of technology…
Lawtech & Lawyers
Data Protection and Privacy: Hitting a Real World Wall
With doubts about implementation of the EU’s ‘cookie consent’ requirements and the suggestion that cloud cuckoo land has at last been found (apparently it is in Denmark), it is time to ask if there is a disconnect between commercial reality and privacy requirements. And whose fault is it?…
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SCL’s New Chair of the In-House Group: Dervish Tayyip
The SCL In-House Group has a new Chair. Dervish Tayyip has taken over the role previously fulfilled by Shanthini Satyendra. Here Dervish shares his plans and hopes for the SCL In-house Group….
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Thames Valley Group Meeting Report: Cloud Computing Contracts
Neil Brown reports on Professor Christopher Millard’s presentation at the SCL Thames Valley Group meeting of 16 February…
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Back to Basics: Service Levels and Service Credits
In our latest article in the Back to Basics series, Roger Bickerstaff and Anna Cook examine the service level and service credit regimes. They highlight the related traps for the unwary and focus on useful practical approaches when establishing the regimes in a commercial IT contract….
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Towards ‘Open Lawyering’ – Revisiting The Future of Law
In an article arising from the SCL Policy Forum 2010, Jeremy Newton looks back at Richard Susskind’s ground-breaking book and examines the extent to which the paradigm has in fact shifted…
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Vive la Difference
This encourages a focus not only on “What is the problem” but “I can see there is a problem how can we fix it”…. It is for these reasons that we have established an In-House Group in SCL….
E-Disclosure Managers and Rising E-Disclosure Costs
Dean Gonsowski comments on the emergence of a new trend and suggests complementary ways to ensure that there is relief from rising e-disclosure costs…
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Location, Location … Guidance on Applicable Law in International Data Processing Scenarios
EU regulators have issued new guidance on how to determine which Member State’s data protection rules apply in cross border commercial scenarios, including cloud computing. Claire Walker and Shona Kerr analyse that Opinion, but ask whether the objectives of the legislation might be better served by proper harmonisation of standards across Europe (and beyond)?…
Watching Cloud Contracts Take Shape
Simon Bradshaw, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden recount the results of a survey into cloud computing contracts and examine a few of the issues brought into focus by the survey…