SCL Event Report: SCL Junior Lawyers’ Group – “Cryptocurrencies and ICOs – Opportunities and Challenges for the Legal Sector”
Gerald Brent reports on the SCL Junior Lawyers’ Group event hosted by Baker McKenzie on 22 May 2018…
Privacy & Data Protection
Bulk Interception: Latest European Court of Human Rights Ruling
The ECtHR has considered a challenge to the regime for bulk interception of communications in Sweden and decided that it meets ECHR standards…
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Cases Update June/July 2018
These are brief reports of a number of cases dealt with on the SCL site over the last two months. In many cases, more detailed reports are available online, where links to full judgments are also available….
ICYMI June/July 2018
A brief mention of some recent developments covered more fully on the SCL website or tweeted by SCL…
The Risk of Not ‘Reaching for the Contract’
Monica Connolly and Eilidh Smith offer a case review of David MacBrayne Limited v Atos IT Services (UK) Limited and point out the lessons that might be taken from the case…
Blocking Orders and ISP Costs
The Supreme Court has given its decision in the case concerning the costs of implementing blocking orders sought by Cartier and others, where BT and other ISPs sought reimbursement…
Facebook Fan Pages and Widening Responsibility for Data Processing
The CJEU has ruled that the administrator of a ‘fan page’ is jointly responsible with Facebook for processing the personal data of persons visiting the page on Facebook…
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GDPR: Right to Work Checks and the RLMT
We will be running a series of articles illustrating the impact of increased data protection awareness in specific areas. Here, Clare Hedges looks at effects arising in an immigration scenario and offers a simple solution….
GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018: How do they impact publishers?
In the second in our series of articles on the impact of data protection in specific areas, Nicola Cain and Rupert Cowper-Coles look at publishing….
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Smart contracts: can code ever be law?
Hoi Tak Leung, our Associate Editor for Hong Kong and China, takes a fresh look at smart contracts and when or whether they are enforceable….