Publishing & social media

Internet Privacy: Inroads into Assumptions

June 30, 2001

In February the case of Totalise Plc v Motley Fool Limited went almost without mention. Joanne Ashley describes why she finds this surprising and briefly considers the implications of this case….

Letter to the Editor

June 30, 2001

There are a number of significant omissions in AmandaKearsley’s article The Internet,Paedophilia and the ISP (C&L Vol 12 issue 1; April/May 2001) so that theresult is somewhat unbalanced. 1. Charges involving paedophiliac material are nearly always prosecutedunder the Protection of Children Act 1978, not the Obscene Publications Act uponwhich Ms Kearsley concentrates. This applied in…

Editorial

April 30, 2001

Modernising the Civil Courts In a general welcome for the proposals and new funding, the SCL responsemakes it clear that there is a great deal still to be done and that it is vitalthat the right approach is taken now. It states, for example, that ‘it isessential that modernisation (including the physical and systems analysisinfrastructures)…

The Internet, Paedophilia and the ISP

April 30, 2001

The ideology of the Internet as a communications channel offering all things
to all men as the ultimate in free speech has recently come under close
scrutiny. Since the public outrage against the lenient sentences imposed on
seven men for tradi…

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000

August 31, 2000

Rico Calleja analyses the new Act and points out some of its defects and dangers….

Jurisdiction on the Internet – not such a barrel of laughs for Euromarket!

August 31, 2000

Dawn Osborne investigates the recent case of Euromarket Designs Inc v Peters in the UKHigh Court before Jacob J, which reinforces the view that jurisdiction on the Internet can be a difficult issue for plaintiffs….