Broadband Adverts Guidance
The CAP has published new guidance for broadband providers when adverts use the term ‘unlimited’ or make broadband speed claims…
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PhonepayPlus Consults on App-based Mobile Payments
PhonepayPlus, the regulator for phone-paid services in the UK, published a public consultation on its proposed Guidance for app-based mobile payments on 26 September….
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Death by PowerPoint
Come along and join our annual conference on technology and risk in Bath in October and see how we fare in meeting the PowerPoint challenge….
CPD Online August / September 2011 Edition of Computers & Law
Questions arising from the August/September issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL36 – 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Back to Basics: Security for Costs
Michael Taylor and George Woods focus on a crucial basic issue in IT litigation – the availability of an order for security for costs….
CPD Online: IT in Financial Services Seminar – New Ways of Working, New Risks, New Legal Challenges
Questions arising from the podcast of the SCL Seminar ‘IT in Financial Services: New Ways of Working, New Risks, New Legal Challenges’ held on 14 July 2011 – SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL35 – 2 hours….
Targeted Marketing: Give Me (Opted-in) Football Fans
A High Court judgment on a sponsorship deal gives some interesting insights into the real world of harvesting e-mail addresses and mobile numbers for targeted marketing. Mr Justice Walker considers the practical meaning of ‘opted-in’ and deals with the endearing claim that 250,000 SMS messages are ‘sent’ even if there is no real notion of them being likely to be received….
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CPD Online June / July 2011 Edition of Computers & law
Questions arising from the June/July issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL31 – 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Internet Gambling and Restrictive National Monopolies: Latest ECJ Judgment
In Case C-212/08 Zeturf Ltd v Premier minister, the Court of Justice of the European Union has dealt with a claim brought by a Malta-based company effectively challenging a statutory monopoly on betting on French horse races. The judgment follows the familiar line that such a monopoly can be justified if it is aimed at combating the dangers linked to games of chance. The Court goes on to say that the restriction on the freedom to provide services constituted by such a monopoly must be assessed in relation to all the marketing channels for that betting….
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Court Technology: An Embarrassment of Hitches
The publication by His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC of his response to the recent MOJ consultation on civil justice reform reminds us that, when it comes to court technology, we have travelled a short distance in a very long time….
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