LiST Publishes New Protocol
New releases are available on data exchange protocols….
Litigation & DR
Information from Litigation Support Providers
These are responses to the call in the December 2006/January 2007 issue of the magazine for information from LSPs. SCL emphasizes that the information below is supplied by the providers themselves….
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E-disclosure, Needles and Haystacks
Alex Charlton and Matthew Lavy recount their recent experience of e-disclosure in an article that might well be entitled ‘E-disclosure: Where it went wrong (and how we can fix it).’…
FOI Fees and Limits
SCL submitted a response to the Consultation Paper from the Department of Constitutional Affairs on fees for supplying data and the imposition of a limit on the expense of supply, beyond which an exemption applies but there is now an opportunity for further consultation….
Scotching Spam
Edward Phillips and Andrew Lothian explain the background to a case where a spammer was made to pay….
A Benchmark for Benchmark Clauses
Growth in the use of benchmarking has been more than matched by moans and groans about the process and the anomalies it can throw up. Neil Barton applies his wide experience to offer advice on improving the drafting and implementation of benchmarking clauses….
European Commission Consultation on Consumer Law
Helen Hart considers this consultation process, which has important implications for online sales….
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Major Online Dispute Resolution Forum Comes to Liverpool
The International Forum on ODR is to be held in the UK for the first time….
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Editorial
OGC Survey The great success of the SCL Conference in Oxford in November was that it created an increased dialogue between the public sector and the private sector. Of course from the very beginning the behaviour of occasional adversaries was exemplary but so it was in the age of chivalry – when there was…
E-disclosure in Practice
Chris Dale follows up his earlier article Uncovering the Mysteries of E-disclosure (C&L, December 2005/January 2006) with a more detailed look at what is involved, fortified by five days at LegalTech in New York….