Processing Personal Data and Privacy
Jackie Wilson is a solicitor in private practice and Chair of the SCL Solent Group. She can be contacted at jackiewilson@compuserve.com…
Litigation & DR
Developing Successful Privacy Relationships
This is Robert Waixel’s report of the Privacy Laws & Business 15th Annual International Conference. Robert Waixel is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. He specialises in Computer Law in general and Data Protection Law and practice in particular….
IP Rights: The Latest EC Directive
Chris Scroggs looks at the latest anti-piracy Directive….
International Business and e-arbitration
The Internet is being waved in front of businesses large and small as the future for prosperity. The oft-touted battle cry is ‘benefit from a world market at your fingertips’. Nevertheless, despite government pressure to join the fray, the EU reports that many smaller businesses (SMEs) are reluctant to go online. They also conclude that access to affordable alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary to give SMEs confidence in cross-border trading. It is easy enough to pinpoint a need but developing a real solution, E-Arbitration-T, has been a much longer story with players across Europe….
LSLA and Bar Report on Technology in the Civil Courts
At the end of June this year, the London Solicitors Litigation Association and selected members of the Bar published a joint report, The Practitioner Working Group Report on Investment in Technology in the Civil Courts of England and Wales. The report was commented on by Lord Justice Brooke in his speech to the LSLA and is available in full as a Web article on the SCL site….
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Specific software, correction of errors and source codes: tribulations of a Frenchman in an offshore software development paradise
This article from Marc-Antoine Ledieu delves into the confusion which can arise whenever, and wherever, software is developed….
The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 in Practice
The main provisions of the E-Commerce Directive have now been implemented in the UK. Guy Veysey, a solicitor in the IT & E-commerce group at City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, discusses how they will be applied….
Read More… from The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 in Practice
BAILII – Five Year Celebration Meeting
This is a transcript of the formal part of the meeting on Monday, 1st November 2004….
M-legal
This tour of m-legal issues and technologies from Paul Lambert was also published in the Irish Law Society Gazette….
Challenges to Database Information Retrieval – Do We Need a World Information Treaty and Tribunal?
Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….