legislation.gov.uk and good law
John Sheridan brings us up to date on the major strides being made to make legislation online more accessible and up to date…
Publishing & social media
Attorney General’s Warning on Online Contempt
The Attorney General is to warn Facebook and Twitter users about contempt of court…
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Predictions 2014: Batch 1
The Christmas music has been in the shops for weeks and a Christmas card has been received so it must be time for the SCL Predictions to begin. In strict alphabetical order, and in a complete reversal of the Christmas song, we begin with 12 lords (and ladies) a leaping: Kit Burden, Jan Durant, Beverley Flynn, Paul Gershlick, Andrew Haslam, Tom Hiskey, Stewart James, Daniel Pollick, Joe Reevy, John Salmon, Callum Sinclair and Peter Sommer…
The Perils of Revenge Porn
Alexander Cochrane looks at the new form of revenge involving the use of intimate images…
SCL Meeting Report: ‘Online Advertising Masterclass: Display, Data, Search and Social’.
On 6 November 2013, Bristows LLP hosted the latest session organised by the SCL Media Group which proved extremely popular. The session covered various aspects of online advertising and was chaired by Paul Jordan, head of the advertising team at Bristows. Sacha Wilson, an associate at Bristows, reports on the session….
Google go down in Paris: How did it come to this?
Dominic Crossley gives his view of the recent judgment of the Tribunal de Grande Instance on a claim brought by Max Mosley against Google, relating to certain images available on a Google Images search…
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Monkeys, Dartboards and Predictions
Reviewing the predictions published on the SCL web site over the last few years suggests that nearly all of the next lot of predictions will be wrong. But don’t let that stop you from trying to get it right….
Data Protection Regulation: Is it On or Off?
Dr Chris Pounder speculates on the likely fate of the EU plans for data protection reform…
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Editorial
I write this in the aftermath, more a warm glow really, of another highly successful SCL Conference. I feel the warm glow (even though I wasn’t actually there) via the feedback that comes my way and because David Chaplin’s buzzy account of the event (see the SCL web site) captured the buzz so well. The…
Defamation: Draft Regulations Now Published
The Defamation (Operators of Websites) Regulations 2013 are now available in draft form….