Holding Back the Digital Tide
Colin Hulme and Jennifer Whitehead reflect on enforcement of IPR in a converged world, and recognise its limits….
Litigation & DR
Come on, Come on, Let’s Stick Together
David Halliday assesses the potential for the current environment to drive parties to existing IT procurement and outsourcing deals to reconsider their position – and where they might end up….
Jackson Report: E-disclosure
The preliminary report by Lord Justice Jackson for his Civil Litigation Costs Review is wide-ranging. SCL members may have a special interest in the coverage of e-disclosure in the report….
1.4(2)(k)
Has it, and IT, gone missing from the Jackson Report?…
Internet Squatters: Eviction from a .IE Domain Name
Tess Crean outlines the dispute resolution procedure for .ie domain names….
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Will Social Networking Services Survive Only at the Expense of Privacy?
This is the essay which won Philip Hutchinson the SCL Essay Prize 2009….
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Latest ECJ Ruling on Data Protection
The European Court of Justice has given judgment in College van burgemeester en wethouders van Rotterdam v M.E.E. Rijkeboer, a reference on Article 12 of Directive 95/46 (rights of access)…
Editorial
In the last few weeks, I have resolved on a number of occasions to cover a new development on the SCL Web site or to note it in the Editor’s Blog, only to find that it has become so widely covered in mainstream media that there seems at first glance to be nothing for a…
Communications Data Collection and Storage
The Home Office has published a consultation paper on the collection and storage of communications data. Views on the proposals outlined are sought by 20 July….
You’ll Be Sick and Sorry Later
The latest government proposals on data retention and storage remind me of ice cream, poor parenting and children…