Recent Developments in New Zealand
Our international editor for New Zealand, David J Harvey, reviews changes in the use of court technology in New Zealand…
Litigation & DR
The Microsoft Ireland Case: Current State of Play – a summary of the issues and background
Edward Naughton and Mark Lubbock summarize the issues arising and background to United States v Microsoft Corporation, which is currently being heard before the US Supreme Court….
EU Commission Recommendation on Operational Measures to Tackle Illegal Content Online
The European Commission has published its recommendation on operational measures to tackle illegal content online…
Covert CCTV at Work: is this ever possible?
Gwynneth Tan and Michael Briggs consider decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, which recently held that covert CCTV infringed a worker’s right to a private life. A previous decision of the same court permitted use of covert CCTV. They ask where employers stand…
Forgetting What We Never Knew
Laurence Eastham thinks that two pre-trial judgments from the High Court concerning the right to be forgotten lead us towards a strange conundrum…
Supermarket Swept up into Liability of Rogue Employee
Mark Deem recounts the Morrisons tale of woe and considers its implications…
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Irish Data Protection Bill
Alex Towers and John Magee of William Fry offer some highlights from the Bill published on 1 February…
Blockchain and Smart Contracts: Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart
In this edited version of her recent paper, Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart: Blockchain-Based Contracts and the Social Workings of Law (which can be linked to below), Karen Levy examines blockchain-based contracts and the social workings of law…
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Demystifying Transparency – What Do the GDPR, Articles 13 and 14 GDPR Really Mean?
Gemma Briance and Geoffrey Sturgess drill down into the obligations imposed by the GDPR, Articles 13 and 14 and advocate a proportionate interpretation of inflexible requirements…
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Data Retention Rights: Clarity Remains Elusive
The Court of Appeal has given judgment on the Home Secretary’s appeal against the High Court judgment ruling that the data retention powers in the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014. The extent of the ongoing rights to retain data for ‘security’ and related purposes remain distressingly unclear….
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