If it were true, as was once so commonly stated, that the Internet is the Wild West, rough, lawless and just generally dangerous, then I have been playing Wyatt Earp this week. I have been poking my nose into the e-commerce saloon in defence of the sweet virgin consumer, when it was definitely not wanted,…
Davina Garrod reports and comments on a controversial decision which just might change the IT industry for ever….
Laurence Eastham reviews a new book from Peter Warren and Michael Streeter cyber alert: How the World is Under Attack from a New Form of Crime (ISBN 1-904132-62-6, Vision Publishing £10.99)….
Two things of interest happened in Parliament on the 5th April. The first was the Prime Minister’s announcement of the date of the 2005 general election; the second was the first reading of Derek Wyatt MP’s Computer Misuse Act 1990 (Amendment) Bill, a ten minute rule bill which seeks (as its name would suggest) to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA). Whilst it would be fair to say that the former was perhaps the higher profile of the two, to many IT lawyers the latter is of equal importance and Shelley Hill examines the Bill’s proposals….
Privacy and anonymity are concepts that appear to be rapidly fading away into insignificance as networked communications become ubiquitous. This is an issue that is raised, together with the development of human rights, in the recent text Mapping the Global Future A Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project NIC 2004-13, December 2004). A…
Jeffrey S. Wolfe examines the push to resolve e-commerce disputes by ADR and the implications for consumers and for traditional dispute resolution….
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Mathew Pryke reports on an important decision of the ECJ: C-336/03 easyCar (UK) Limited v Office of Fair Trading. He also comments on what some see as a major reverse for the OFT….
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Richard Stephens is the new Chairman of SCL . He is the first person to act alone as Chairman after years where SCL has had a joint leadership. Richard Stephens had previously been an SCL Trustee. He is currently operating the Law Office of Richard Stephens, where he is able to apply his specialisms of…
Robert Unslow explains why e-filing is inevitable and suggests ways to make its advance more welcome. He also calls on SCL members to join the debate on e-filing….
David Blunt QC and Michael Taylor of 4 Pump Court examine the use of termination clauses and focus on the material, the irremediable and other types of breach….