Calm Down Dear, It’s Only a Cookie!
The ePrivacy Directive has been amended so that consent will be needed for many cookies. Laura Hatherley and Peter Church consider the implications and ask whether the amendment really is as daft as it looks….
Telecoms & the Internet
Boo Hoo for Miss Boo
A High Court judgment has granted an interim injunction prohibiting the use of the domain name www.missboo.co.uk…
EU Telecoms Reform
Mike Conradi explains that agreement on EU Telecoms Reform is near to finalisation and describes the key changes which it will introduce…
EU Telecoms Package Approved
The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers reached an agreement on the EU Telecoms Reform on 5 November….
Displease Sir: Teacher Rating Legality
Andreas Rühmkorf reports and comments on a landmark decision of the German Federal Court of Justice on the legality of a teacher rating web site….
Fireworks or Fizzle?
Remember, remember – it’s going to take a while for the Telecoms Reform Package to be law. It might make less of a bang than we expect….
Coming Shortly: Non-Latin Addresses
The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online….
UK Software Suppliers and SaaS
Law firms are increasingly embracing the Internet as a way of accessing a variety of popular legal applications says Dominic Cullis of the LSSA. But what are the benefits – and drawbacks – of this kind of technology?…
AdWords: the Advocate General’s Opinion
Susan Barty, Isabel Davies and Tom Scourfield report on the latest development in Google France and ors v Louis Vuitton Malletier and ors – the Advocate General’s Opinion published on 22 September 2009….
Disclosure Duties and Penalties
In Earles v Barclays Bank plc [2009] EWHC 1 (Mercantile) HHJ Simon Brown QC, a judge with a well deserved reputation for knowing about e-disclosure, has made a number of comments on the failures of the Bank in respect of disclosure and includes considerable criticism of the legal team representing them. The relatively complex claim…