Outsourcing is of major importance commercially, and especially important in the IT sector. Outsourcing as a business practice has grown rapidly over the last decade. Bill Jones of Wragge & Co considers current trends in outsourcing from a legal perspective….
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Adam Edwards reviews the e-mail problem and explains why he thinks Ensure Legal offers one solution….
The SCL Boot Camp is back. The 2003 Boot Camp is 20/21 June at the Manchester Conference Centre….
Maitland Kalton provides a reminder and update on one of the SCL’s most important recent initiatives, and seeks recruits for the Group and its committee….
What is LITIG? Read more about it here….
Dr Leslie Saward spoke at the Midland Group recently and revealed news of one of the latest hot gadgets, the Smart Pen….
Ian A Davis, Director of Legal Services at the Registers of Scotland Executive Agency, describes the giant strides made towards automatic registration in Scotland….
Two cases have come out of the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) in recent weeks reversing what for many had seemed to be a run of success for users against IT suppliers. In particular, when it came to applying the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (UCTA) to exclusions and limitations of liability, IT suppliers were prone to fare badly. This note from Richard Stephens reports on the recent case of SAM Business Systems Limited v Hedley and Company [2002] EWHC 2733 (TCC), a decision of Judge Bowsher QC. *This article will look at two principal issues in the judgment: the presence of bugs and their legal implications and limitations and exclusions of liability in the light of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977….
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In the wake of the nationwide Operation Ore Angus Hamilton looks at recent developments in the regulation of child pornography on the Internet….
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It was a real pleasure for me to be able to attend the SCL Award Ceremony this year. I apologise most humbly to anybody who followed my tips for selecting the winner, although I never heard of any large wagers. As most will know by now, Professor Richard Susskind OBE presented the SCL Award 2003…