Dawson-Damer: The Irresistible Rise of the DPA
Christopher Knight summarises an important Court of Appeal judgment on subject access requests and legal professional privilege….
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Litigation & DR
Trustee Changes and New SCL Fellows
There are new SCL Trustees and two of those retiring from the Board of Trustees have become SCL Fellows…
Proposal for Standardisation of Blockchain and Electronic Distributed Ledger Technologies
Pearse Ryan and Robert Cain raise awareness of an interesting new initiative…
IT Project Exit Strategies
The alternative title suggested by Gill Hunt and Vicky Cooper was: ‘I’m a disappointed Business Sponsor, get me out of here!’, which illustrates the focus of this perceptive and useful article….
Blockchain: From Theory to Practice
Sue McLean takes a careful look at a series of common questions that arise, and are likely to arise with increasing frequency, where support is sought from practitioners on a blockchain project…
Issues in Global Sourcing Transactions
Mike Pierides, Sarah Atkinson and Dan Coen cover the basic, and crucial, issues that need to be considered when multi-jurisdictional outsourcing contracts are in contemplation…
Data Protection: Subject Access Rights
A recent High Court judgment concerned the adequacy of a search following a subject access request and the limits of legal professional privilege in that context…
Facebook, Illegality and the E-commerce Directive
In light of the judgment in CG v Facebook in the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal, Professor Lorna Woods asks: when is Facebook liable for illegal content under the E-commerce Directive?…
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Freedom of Movement
Laurence Eastham offers a cautionary tale about the monitoring of movements…
Most Exponential Law Firms 2025
An entertaining and insightful article from Rohit Talwar and Alexandra Whittington, as they look ahead to a very different law firm environment in 2025. Their stories from the future might just motivate you in the present….