Julia Hörnle looks at an important ruling by the CJEU on jurisdiction and highlights the warnings for business that flow from it…
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Cathryn Evans reviews the second edition of Tomorrow’s Lawyers (OUP, 240 pp, £12.99 ISBN: 9780198796633), the latest publication from Professor Richard Susskind OBE…
The Leveson Report included a series of recommendations which related to data protection issues, and might have a considerable impact on data protection regulation in the UK. The Information Commissioner’s Office has now published its response to the relevant parts of the Report….
Pearse Ryan, Claire O’Brien and Andrew Harbison outline and comment on the new legislation in Ireland which aims to target white collar crime and cybercrime in particular…
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Here is a selection of the online predictions made by our contributors. All relate to IT for law firms, e-disclosure or related issues….
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A set of predictions, mainly from practising IT lawyers but with a few academics too, which range widely but include predictions on the developments expected in IT law….
Cloud services and data protection will become even more of a “hot topic” in 2013…
These may be the last set of predictions of 2012 – it is hard to predict that far in advance. But we have quality predictions from John Salmon, Pearse Ryan and Stephen Mason and it would be appropriate if SCL President Richard Susskind did indeed turn out to be our last contributor for 2012….
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William Richmond-Coggan sees the law keeping up with technology, underlines the warnings from the Lord McAlpine debacle and demolishes a few myths, including the myth of a luddite legal system…
Paul Lambert looks across the world at various cases involving Google and takes a look at its claim to defences and denial of liability…