Dinner in Honour of Alan Brakefield
After 29 years as Treasurer of the Society for Computers & Law, Alan Brakefield is retiring from that post. A dinner was held in his honour at the House of Lords on Tuesday 17 December….
Technology, Society & Justice
E-Conveyancing – Is it going to Help the High Street Lawyer
Allan Carton of the consultancy Practical Solutions looks at the present-day implications of e-conveyancing, such as NLIS searching, both for conveyancers and those relying on conveyancing income….
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Editorial
Lawtel The announcement that, with effect from 1 August, Lawtel was to become part of Sweet & Maxwell left me rather sad. And I was genuinely fearful for the future of online legal publishing. While Sweet & Maxwell have a long and illustrious history and have achieved considerable improvements in their online products, they are…
Don’t Always Believe what you Reed
On 20 May 2002, Mr Justice Pumfrey gave judgment in the case of (1) Reed Executive Plc (2) Reed Solutions Plc v (1) Reed Business Information Limited (2) Reed Elsevier (UK) Limited (3) totaljobs.com Limited. The case explored for the first time in any detail the extent to which the use of various optimisation techniques for Web sites could give rise to new forms of trade mark infringement and passing off. Ian Jeffery of Lewis Silkin reports on the case and offers his comments….
The Cookie Monster?
Whilst the future of the edible cookie will be assured by hungry adults, children and characters from Sesame Street, the same cannot be said for its electronic namesake. The debate surrounding the use of cookies continues to be a point of contention between business, government and civil rights movements. Garry Mackay and Mark Lomas of Bevan Ashford review the position….
Deep Risks in Deep-linking?
John Garcia of Clyde & Co considers the main heads of claim under which liability for deep-linking may result, following the recent decision in Keljob v Cadremploi….
Pickwick updated
An extract from an edition of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club originally by Charles Dickens…
Bloody Sunday: The Electronic Inquiry
Members of the Society for Computers and Law, at the invitation of Lord Saville, travelled to Londonderry recently for a day out at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. Justin McKenna reports on the experience….
Legal Aspects of the Information Society
Brigitte Zammitt reviews Ian Lloyd’s book, Legal Aspects of the Information Society (Butterworths), and reviews the topics covered in the book….
Backbytes
Watford Junction The Court of Appeal’s seismic division in Watford Electronics v Sanderson is discussed in depth by Margaret Harvey and Nick Rudgard of Addleshaw Booth at p24 of this issue. Earthquakes imply aftershocks and adjustments. The importance of the decision can only be qualified by recalling the uncanny ability of the judicial process to…