The attention focused on corporate governance and professional responsibility within all organisations is at an all time high. This has been driven by the collapse of some well known organisations and the need to visibly be regulating organisations more closely. This has forced risk management and compliance even higher up the agenda of law firms….
The most cursory flip through this issue will reveal that it devotes many of its pages to disclosure of electronic documents. Not only do we have Terry Harrison’s short article and a lengthy account of the recent report of the Commercial Court Working Party chaired by Mr Justice Cresswell but the article by His Honour…
Clive Davies reviews and comments upon the current state of online licensing of software and the associated legal implications and addresses the new models for the distribution of software as a service available on demand. He also contrasts some of the legal and other issues that apply to software with other online media in the music and film area….
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John Yates makes a plea for tolerance and understanding….
At first sight, law and the provision of legal advice seems the ideal ground for the application of artificial intelligence. Alastair Morrison wonders whether the AI promise is at last edging towards realisation and asks serious questions about its current relevance….
Court technology as fashionable as Carrie Bradshaw in her Manolo Blahniks? Lisa Burton acknowledges that we are not quite there yet but looks at moves to get prosecutions in serious fraud trials to look as sleek as a Prada handbag….
Paul Heritage-Redpath knows that it takes more than technology to create a technological solution….
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In early November 2003, Mark Humphries, Neil Mirchandani and Sanjay Bhandari, members of the Commercial Litigators’ Forum (the CLF), published a working paper dealing with the disclosure of electronic evidence in commercial dispute resolution. The paper can be accessed via the CLF’s Web site, but the main issues addressed in the paper are examined here by Neil Mirchandani….
I have been interested in the interface between technology and the courts for 18 years. For the last three years I have been the Judge in charge of Modernisation, representing the judiciary on the small Court Service board which is driving the £300 million court modernisation programme forward. And since the beginning of October I…
The Working Group’s report deserves more publicity than it has received, although it is no doubt being taken seriously by those with the power to influence decisions. Some of its recommendations are highlighted below. Electronic Issue of Proceedings and Applications As regards this topic, the Working Group’s recommendations included the following: · “We believe practitioners…
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