My predictions for 2016 are: • The UK Supreme Court will give further judgments emphasising the words used in contracts, applied to other contractual clauses. • The courts will expand the duty of good faith in outsourcing contracts. • A high profile company will be caught carrying out a cyber-attack on another. • The EU…
Predictions 2016: Stephen Mason
Finally, judges and lawyers will have to understand that computers are not ‘reliable’, and the presumption of ‘reliability’ should not apply. The Post Office Horizon system will come under the scrutiny of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. The publication of the full transcript of the trial of {i}R v Seem Misra{/i} will help the process…
Developments in the Digital Single Market Strategy
Mark Owen and Adam Rendle provide a valuable summary of the proposed strategy for the DSM…
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EDPS Registers Concern over Pending PNR Agreement
The European Data Protection Supervisor has expressed real concern over the move to agree a new Passenger Name Record (PNR) scheme…
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Predictions 2016: Antony Hall
In the first of three sets of predictions for today, Antony Hall looks at the effect of government efforts to improve services…
Predictions 2016: Marion Oswald
Our second contributor of the day is Marion Oswald. She worries about the use of algorithmic data analysis…
Predictions 2016: Charlie Hoult
Last set for today – stimulating stuff from the Chairman of the Dynamo North East IT network…
Investigating Employee Theft: Uncovering the Tracks
Jason Coyne, Andrew Lee and Daniel Burgess work through a typical example of the work of a team involved in protecting a business from an employee using confidential information to boost his prospects in a new job or business…
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Predictions 2016: Emma Wright and Darren Jones
The Leap to the Intelligence Age?…
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Predictions 2016: Ann Hemming
Here’s Ann Hemming on the inexorable rise of document automation…