Although there is a dearth of English judicial pronouncement about torts committed on or via the Internet, a number of decisions of US courts have considered the question of whether a cause of action in trespass lies against those who use and copy data from another’s Web site. Might similar results occur were such matters to be litigated here asks Helen Barnard…
Tony Axelrod of e-Syscare writes about getting the most out of applications….
This article is an edited version of Lord Justice Brooke’s lecture to the London Solicitors Litigation Association….
In this piece, Alastair Morrison reviews the pressures on solicitors and the courts arising from IT implementation. He analyses the position of smaller firms and looks at the prospects for XML and AI. This was originally submitted as a dissertation for the degree of LLM at the University of Strathclyde. It is rare for SCL to accept such material but this is a useful examination of various commentators’ views….
At the end of June this year, the London Solicitors Litigation Association and selected members of the Bar published a joint report, The Practitioner Working Group Report on Investment in Technology in the Civil Courts of England and Wales. The report was commented on by Lord Justice Brooke in his speech to the LSLA and is available in full as a Web article on the SCL site….
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Alastair Morrison responds to the call in an issue of the magazine for articles on whether generic software can do most of the IT work required by the legal profession…
Egami-Legal Litigation Support from DPA-Egami was a finalist for the 1998 SCL Award….
Adam Westbrooke argues the importance of data tagging but explains that its importance does not dictate that it must be complex….