Predictions 2007
Each year we ask a selection of IT law and legal technology experts for their predictions for the coming year. These are the collected predictions. Those most recently added appear first in this format….
Litigation & DR
Public Sector – Private Challenge: IT and the Public Sector
Hazel Randall reports on the SCL 6th Annual Conference held on 24 and 25 November at the Oxford Hotel, Oxford….
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The Gowers’ Review of Intellectual Property: What’s in it for the Technology Sector?
Ian De Freitas gives his assessment of this important review with special emphasis on the interrelationship between IP and technology….
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SCL Policy Forum Report
Euan Faulds reports on the recent SCL Policy Forum entitled Decentring Internet Regulation: The Changing Roles of Government and the Private Sector in Determining and Enforcing Acceptable Online Behaviour…
Outsourcing Contracts: What Role Do (Should) Lawyers Play?
Richard Stephens and Mari Sako explain about a new initiative which aims to provide a real understanding of the role of contracts and lawyers in promoting effective outsourcing relationships….
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MiFID – IT and Operations
Yuban Moodley and Ash Saluja summarise the key principles of MiFID, and set out areas of relevance to IT and operations contracts in the financial services sector and look at the implications of outsourcing….
SCL AGM: Changes in SCL Trustees and Chair
SCL AGM: Changes in SCL Trustees and Chair…
Interview with Bill Jones, SCL’s Chair
After a period acting as SCL’s Joint Chair with Richard Stephens, Bill Jones has now accepted a period of office as SCL’s sole Chair. Laurence Eastham interviewed him for the magazine….
Specific Performance of IT Contracts
In this article, Duncan McCall and Alex Potts consider the circumstances in which the courts might be willing to grant the remedy of specific performance in an IT contracts dispute. They also consider the relationship between a limitation of liability clause and the remedy of specific performance….
Technology in the Courtroom
Vicky Harris reviews some of the technology that is most likely to be useful to barristers and other litigators….