The title of this article reflects not only a difference from that written by Richard Chapman in the last issue, called `Courtroom of the Future’, but also the fact that legal life in the USA is somewhat different from ours here, as…
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Alistair Breward is a solicitor in the IT/Telecoms Group at Taylor Joynson Garrett….
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Renzo is a solicitor at Titmuss Sainer Dechert, 2 Serjeants’Inn, London EC4Y 1LT, 0171 583 5353, MarchiniR@titmuss-dechert.com.Timothy is an attorney at Dechert Price & Rhoads, Ten Post Office Square,Boston, MA 02109-4603, +1 617 728 7100, tblank@dechert.com….
The consultation paper issued by the Lord Chancellor’s Department, civil.justice:resolving and avoiding disputes in the information age, sought responsesfrom interested parties by 18 December. SCL has responded by welcoming thethinking behind the paper and giving a detailed account of the Society’s viewson the use which the Government should make of IT in the civil justice…
The first three named authors are part of the Home Office Information Management Section….
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An independent study into the changing habits of UK companies has revealed thatmany will have to cross a huge chasm before they are technologically safe,legally sound and properly insured against the risks of business use of e-mailand the Internet….
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Antony Smith is IT Co-ordinator at the School of Law, King’s College London. He may be contacted at antony.smith@kcl.ac.uk.He reports on a one-day seminar hosted by the CTI Law Technology Centre at theUniversity of Warwick on 22 June 1998….
John Mawhood is a Partner in the IT and Telecommunications Group of Tarlo Lyons….
Year 2000: Law and Liability by Susan Singleton, Sweet & Maxwell, 1998. £99.
Countdown to 2000: A Guide to the Legal Issues by Halberstam Elias & Co, Butterworths, 1998. £45…
Outsourcing IT – The Legal Aspects by Rachel Burnett, Gower, 235 pages, hardback….