Ghost of Tech Law Past
Laurence Eastham gave one of the presentations at the SCL Tech Law Futures Conference on 10 November. This is his attempt to reflect that talk…
Litigation & DR
SCL Event Report: Issues in Global Services Transactions
Dan Coen reports on the Issues in Global Services Transactions event held on 11 October 2016 and hosted by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP….
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Breyer: Dynamic IP Addresses as Personal Data
Lorna Woods reports on the recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union and explains its implications…
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CMA Launches Investigation into Online Gambling
The Competition and Markets Authority has announced it is investigating whether online gambling firms are treating their customers fairly…
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SCL Event Report: Negotiating and Litigation of Technology Contracts – Some Common Challenges
Darren Grayson Chng reports on the initial meeting of SCL Singapore. His article aims to provide a brief overview of the topics discussed, while going a little further into some of the intriguing points raised by the Chair and the panellists which are of universal application….
Blocking Injunctions and Trade Marks: Court of Appeal Cartier Judgment
In Cartier International AG & Ors v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 658 five English ISPs (Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk and Virgin) were appealing against orders made in late 2014 which required them to block or attempt to block access by their customers to certain target websites which were advertising and selling counterfeit copies…
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Review Compilation
Laurence Eastham offers reviews of publications that may be of interest to SCL members…
Payment Card Digital Security Changes
Pearse Ryan, Andrew Harbison and Anne O’Donovan guide you through recent changes to the PCI Digital Security Standard which reflect learning from large-scale hacking attempts…
Has the Future Arrived?
Professor Richard Susskind’s ground-breaking book, The Future of Law, is now 20 years old. How have the radical predictions he made in that book fared? The SCL Annual Lecture, presented on Thursday 6 October was his chance to let us know and David Chaplin here attempts to summarise Richard’s conclusions….
Whose personal data is it anyway?
David Hart QC looks at a recent High Court judgment where the data protection and privacy rights of a doctor under GMC investigation clashed with those of his patient…