The battle between file-sharers and the film and music industries throws up some interesting issues. Gary Fotios looks at some of them….
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Dr. David Wall of Leeds University asks the question we would all like to see answered with a ‘YES’….
Court technology as fashionable as Carrie Bradshaw in her Manolo Blahniks? Lisa Burton acknowledges that we are not quite there yet but looks at moves to get prosecutions in serious fraud trials to look as sleek as a Prada handbag….
New techniques for identification and verification may have surprising implications writes Phillip Rees of Hammonds….
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Outsourcing continues to be a high growth activity for many UK businesses, especially in relation to IT and telecoms functions. All the surveys researching the drivers for outsourcing appear to confirm that the main one continues to be the need to reduce cost in order to remain competitive. For the moment at least the most…
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We asked a number of legal IT experts to offer their predictions for 2003….
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….
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…
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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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….