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Are Litigation Support Systems Providing Any Support?

January 1, 2000

Richard Honey is a chartered quantity surveyor and litigation support specialist at Cyril Sweett in London. He is a member of the Technology and Construction Solicitors Association IT Sub-Committee (rhoney@cyrilsweett.co.uk). This article reflects his research into litigation support system use. In his Access to Justice Inquiry, Lord Woolf identified the management of documentary evidence and…

Data Protection Update

January 1, 2000

There has been much activity in the field of data protection and privacy over the last 12 months. This piece from Rosemary Jay of Masons offers a quick guide to the most important developments….

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Battling over the Bug: Y2K and US Court Cases

January 1, 2000

Susan McGhie Sang is an associate solicitor at Myers Fletcher& Gordon, Hammersmith, London and can be contacted on 0171 610 4433. The Millennium Bug is perhaps the best known personality of 1999. As theworld prepares for 1 January, 2000 in the hope that most of its anticipatedcomputer problems will have been solved or minimised by…

Electronic Signatures: The Technical and Legal Ramifications

January 1, 2000

Stephen Mason is a Barrister who specialises in e-commerce,Information Technology and contract law. He is also a consultant to KaltonsSolicitors. Telephone 01462 701098 or 020 7278 1817; email scwm@scwm.co.uk. The fourth edition of his e-book, ‘The Year 2000: A guide tothe legal issues for business’ is available as a free download from www.reachoutmedia.com.The third edition…

Snapshots from Lawtel

January 1, 2000

As part of our declared aim to keep readers aware of the latest cases, we publish brief summaries of the IT cases covered by Lawtel in October and November, plus one hot case from December.

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Limitation Clauses, Restitution and Doomed Computer Systems

November 1, 1999

The recent case of South West Water v ICL has provoked intense interest and Nick Sarker analyses it for us….

E- Commerce and its Impact on Pricing

November 1, 1999

Ben Goodger is a Partner at Willoughby & Partners. He may becontacted at ben@iprights.com ‘A long time ago – maybe last Thursday…’ is how one of the Winnie thePooh stories starts. It’s a bit like that with any discussion of the world ofe-commerce. There are bound to be things in this article which are out-of-dateby…

Intellectual Property in a Peripheral Jurisdiction

November 1, 1999

Annual Lecture to the Scottish Group of Society for Computers & Law, 22 June 1999…

Computer Misuse Prosecutions

November 1, 1999

Peter Sommer examines the lessons to be taken from two recent prosecutions under the Computer Misuse Act 1990….