The DPP’s recent call for input on the setting of guidelines for social media prosecutions overlooks a need for better drafted laws…
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Fan Club: Managing Workflow
We recently called for practitioners to write about the software and gadgets that they personally had found useful in their practice. Aaron Moore recalls the problems he had in managing a growing volume of debt collection cases and outlines the solution that he has found and now endorses….
G-Cloud Framework: First Large Contract Signed
HM Revenue and Customs has become the first government department to sign a contract for the delivery of G-Cloud Services over the Public Services Network….
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EDPS Comments on Online Illegal Content Procedure Proposals
The European Data Protection Supervisor has published his formal comments on DG MARKT’s public consultation on procedures for notifying and acting on illegal content hosted by online intermediaries…
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Kilted Contractual Remedies – Compelling Performance
Iain Rutherford and Martin Sloan explain the contractual remedies available in Scotland, for the particular benefit of English IT lawyers. They also think that there are grounds for considering Scots law when determining choice of law….
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SCL Meeting Report: Effective Ways of Using New Technology in Delivering Legal Services
Claire Andrews reports on the recent meeting of the SCL Knowledge Management Group on ‘Effective ways of using new technology in delivering legal services’, hosted at the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP on 11 September 2012….
DPP’s Guidance on Social Media Prosecutions
Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has issued a statement on social media prosecutions and announced his intention to suggest guidelines for prosecutors….
ASA Ruling on Misleading URL
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that the use of a url in a sponsored link containing ‘nhs’ when there was no direct National Health Service connection was a breach of the CAP Code…
Data Sharing: Consumer Attitudes Survey
Businesses and government must act to reduce consumer concern over data sharing, claims Demos report…
EDPS Concern over Function Creep on Access to Asylum Seekers’ Fingerprints
The European Data Protection Supervisor has adopted an Opinion on the latest amendments concerning EURODAC access. His press release on the topic is headed ‘erosion of fundamental rights creeps along’…
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