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…
David Lock MP, the Parliamentary Secretary at the Lord Chancellor’s Department, reviewed progress in the civil justice strategy when speaking at the SCL Award on 22 January….
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Richard Harrison of Laytons reports on the SCL Award 2001…
John Sibbald reports on the newly constituted Scottish Society for Computers and Law’s first meeting held at the Law Society of Scotland on 14 December – a joint meeting with the Scottish Law Agents Society….
The final stage of the SCL Award 2001 process has now been reached. The nominations have been considered and the finalists have been selected. Laurence Eastham describes the runners who enter the final straight….
Laurence C. Kennedy, Advocate, reports on the Conference held in Edinburgh on 27 June 2000, organised by the SCL Scottish Group in partnership with SCRIPT and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh….
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Rupesh Chandrani is an e-commerce specialist at City law firm Theodore Goddard. He can be contacted on 020 7606 8855 or rupeshchandrani@theodoregoddard.co.uk….
Dawn Osborne is a Partner in Willoughby & Partners.
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On 8 November at Chatham House, SCL and other conveningorganisations combined to hear from Professor Graham Greenleaf about electronicaccess to legal materials in Australia and to examine the possibility ofemulating the Australian example in the UK. I doubt that many of those attending the meetingexpected to be part of an historic event. But by the…
Richard Honey is a chartered quantity surveyor and litigation support specialist at Cyril Sweett in London. He is a member of the Technology and Construction Solicitors Association IT Sub-Committee (rhoney@cyrilsweett.co.uk). This article reflects his research into litigation support system use. In his Access to Justice Inquiry, Lord Woolf identified the management of documentary evidence and…
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