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International Business and e-arbitration

April 30, 1998

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

April 30, 1998

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….

Specific software, correction of errors and source codes: tribulations of a Frenchman in an offshore software development paradise

April 30, 1998

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

April 30, 1998

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….

BAILII – Five Year Celebration Meeting

April 30, 1998

This is a transcript of the formal part of the meeting on Monday, 1st November 2004….

M-legal

April 30, 1998

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?

April 30, 1998

Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….

The Right of Oblivion, Data Culling and Conservation – Charting the Development of the Fifth Principle

April 30, 1998

From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. Only the quote is from Dryden, the article is from Jeremy Warner of the University of Strathclyde. He undertakes an in-depth study of the development of the principle….

Processing Anonymous Data

April 30, 1998

It was generally assumed that data which did not identify individuals fell outside the scope of the Data Protection Act 1998 and therefore the restrictions imposed on the use of “personal data” did not apply. However, recent legal guidance issued by the UK Information Commissioner has thrown this into doubt. Partner Nigel Wildish and assistant Marcus Turle, of the IT & E-commerce group at City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, discuss why data controllers may have to rethink how anonymous data are handled….