Interview with Richard Susskind
Professor Richard Susskind has not only been a major influence on the development of SCL but is an outstandingly influential figure in thinking on and developments in IT and the law….
Litigation & DR
The Courtroom of the Present: Courtroom 21 Project
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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An Immodest Proposal – how to solve all domain name disputes at no cost to anyone
Alistair Breward is a solicitor in the IT/Telecoms Group at Taylor Joynson Garrett….
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Year 2000 Statute in the USA
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….
civil.justice: The SCL Response
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…
Getting in on the Act: The Home Office, the Crime & Disorder Act and the Internet
The first three named authors are part of the Home Office Information Management Section….
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Research on Coping with E-mail and Internet Risks
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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Using the Internet to Teach Law
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….
Securing Domain Name Registrations
Nicholas Wood is a director of Net Searchers International Ltd, the UK based company which assists brand and trademark specialists to protect intellectual property on the Internet through audits, searching, monitoring, tracking and registrations….
IT Law Beyond the Millennium
As IT law becomes a recognised part of every major practice’s armoury, andeven becomes a topic of serious concern to the majority of commercial practicesnationwide, the specialist must look to his laurels. Quite simply it isimpossible to be a specialist when your knowledge and skills are also owned andapplied by vast numbers of your fellow…