Publishing & social media

News Snippets

April 30, 2006

An alert for readers to just some of the news items that were covered on the SCL Web site in March and April….

Processing, Unfair Processing and Compensation

April 30, 2006

Renzo Marchini summarises and comments on the important judgment in David Paul Johnson v The Medical Defence Union Limited [2006] EWHC 321….

Failure to Update and a Slippery Slope

March 1, 2006

Laurence Eastham reflects on possible liability where a Web site owner fails to update information on the site….

Trade Marks, Search Engines and Fair Play

November 1, 2005

The Internet has opened up new channels of communication and ways of doing business. It has generated new possibilities for businesses to compete effectively in the open market. It has also created new ways in which companies (and individuals) can engage in commercial mischief such as exploiting the property rights of others without authorisation. In…

Generic v Specific Software

November 1, 2005

The more I researched and considered the issue, the more convinced I became (as I thought I would) that indeed considerably more can be done with generic products than most firms probably appreciate and that this is going to increase steadily over the coming years. This is a debate whose time has truly come and…

Culture and Case Management Systems within Law Firms

June 30, 2005

If you think that once you are ‘tooled up’ with a case management system, you will become a top niche practice, think again. Steve Ness explains why you may have to grapple with cultural change first….

Human Rights in the Digital Age

April 30, 2005

Privacy and anonymity are concepts that appear to be rapidly fading away into insignificance as networked communications become ubiquitous. This is an issue that is raised, together with the development of human rights, in the recent text Mapping the Global Future A Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project NIC 2004-13, December 2004). A…

Minors, Mobiles and the Law

January 1, 2005

Readers of this magazine, more than most, are used to the law changing rapidly to accommodate changes in technology. When it comes to the law as it affects minors, however, and their ability to enter into commercial arrangements, we find a landscape that has essentially stayed unchanged for centuries. Robin Bynoe explains why the new technology and ancient legal principle could collide….

W(h)ither AI and Law?

June 30, 2004

At first sight, law and the provision of legal advice seems the ideal ground for the application of artificial intelligence. Alastair Morrison wonders whether the AI promise is at last edging towards realisation and asks serious questions about its current relevance….

The Impact of E-mail and Technology on Productivity and Efficiency

June 30, 2004

Victoria Moore’s experience at City firms and as senior in-house counsel gave her an absorbing interest in what firms and partners must do in order to make technology work for them and to deliver legal services to increasingly demanding and sophisticated clients….