E-Filing
Robert Unslow explains why e-filing is inevitable and suggests ways to make its advance more welcome. He also calls on SCL members to join the debate on e-filing….
Telecoms & the Internet
Not So Much a Weblog, More a Way of Life
In just over 18 months a visit to the IPKat weblog has become a regular event for many members of the intellectual property law community and writing it has become a vital component of the lives of its authors. This article from Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon sets out to explain not only what the IPKat is but what it means to them as its co-authors….
Minors, Mobiles and the Law
Readers of this magazine, more than most, are used to the law changing rapidly to accommodate changes in technology. When it comes to the law as it affects minors, however, and their ability to enter into commercial arrangements, we find a landscape that has essentially stayed unchanged for centuries. Robin Bynoe explains why the new technology and ancient legal principle could collide….
Getting Up Close and Personal
Gmail, A9.com and Blinkx are examples of the new privacy implications of personalised online advertising and advanced search engine technology. Eva Wong from Coudert Bros explores the new threat and opportunity….
Zero Tolerance on Day Zero
Jim Davies of GPM Security Consultants explains why vulnerability will survive any anti-virus solution and suggests a different approach….
Future Gazing about the Internet and the Web
The SCL’s Internet Interest Group assembled an expert panel at Charles Russell to peer into the future of the Internet and the Web over the next five to ten years. Laurie Kaye of Laurence Kaye Solicitors, who was Panel Chairman and devised and organised the event, lent them the special SCL crystal ball….
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Iron Laws of Cyberspace The Need for Multidisciplinary Perspectives
William Dutton reviews a series of well known IT legal aphorisms from the perspective of a social scientist. This is an edited version of his Keynote Address to the IFCLA Conference in July….
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Big Brother Isn’t Watching You (Everybody Else Is)
The summer viewing of Big Brother enthralled and appalled. Hazel Randall looks at the show going on on your PC with the updates in Adware and Spyware, and other techniques for tracking what private and commercial PC users are doing….
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Facilities For The Disabled Available Here
In the hustle and bustle of general legal practice where billable hours, legal aid and court diaries conspire to heap pressure on lawyers, it is easy to forget that the law applies to us too. Stephen Moore and William Milliken remind us of one new potential liability….
W(h)ither AI and Law?
At first sight, law and the provision of legal advice seems the ideal ground for the application of artificial intelligence. Alastair Morrison wonders whether the AI promise is at last edging towards realisation and asks serious questions about its current relevance….