The High Court has given judgment on preliminary issues affecting terms of a contract for IT services which sought to limit liability. The judge’s views on the limitation of liability clauses might tempt readers to tighten up their drafting….
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Razia Begum and Rachel Ashwood examine how the lead supervisory authority is determined for multi-national organisations that process HR data….
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Tristan Goodman questions whether the UK data regime strikes an appropriate balance between efficiency and legitimacy…
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Darren Grayson Chng, our Associate Editor for Singapore, outlines proposals to modify their Personal Data Protection Act 2012, which came into operation in 2014….
In an issue dominated by reflections of the stellar June SCL Conference and July’s wonderful Online Courts Hackathon, Laurence Eastham chooses to moan about government incompetence in dealing with the GDPR….
Following his recent trip to China, Richard Susskind reflects on the pace of change on legal technology there, sensing a swing of the pendulum and assessing the implications that may have for the legal landscape in the UK and beyond…
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The DCMS has published a statement of intent covering the proposed contents of the Data Protection Bill…
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Simon Brown and Helen Woollett explore and deplore the potential effect of Article 10 on the capacity of organisation concerned with financial services to monitor for fraud and other breaches of law…
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared that the agreement envisaged between the EU and Canada on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data may not be concluded in its current form, stating that several provisions of the draft agreement do not accord with fundamental rights recognised by the EU…
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Carolina Gasparoli and Tim Hill recount the history of the battle to gain greater protection for LPP…