Nigel Miller explains the latest development on e-signatures and the significance of CSP’s. This article first appeared in the Solicitors Journal….
Naomi Campbell: drugs, distress and the Data Protection Act
In the first case of its kind, Naomi Campbell successfully sued Mirror Group Newspapers for damage and distress caused by breach of the Data Protection Act 1998. Partner Nigel Wildish and assistant Marcus Turle of City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse discuss the case and the legal implications of which online publishers should be aware….
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Why Your Web Strategy is, err, Wrong
An awkward look at a few standard views from Joe Reevy, who thinks that most people have got it, err, wrong….
Electronic Data Exchange for Real Estate
With HM Land Registry’s consultation now underway, no one denies that the property industry is facing a period of unprecedented change. Catherine Williams, newly appointed Technical Manager of PISCES, explains how the property-focused electronic data exchange standard is ideally placed to lead the way….
Backbytes
RollAroundFriday Some time ago, this column contained an obituary for the pioneering legal bulletin board, ‘Link’. This was a dial-up service on which lawyers exchanged news and views and occasionally met up for a drink. It sank before catching the Web wave. If you want some reassurance that some lawyers at least have a life,…
Evolution of Litigation Support Systems
Richard Brockbank responds to Richard Harrison’s article in the Feb/March issue (vol12, issue 6), The E-mail of the Species. He maintains an understandably greater faith in litigation support systems….
Don’t Always Believe what you Reed
On 20 May 2002, Mr Justice Pumfrey gave judgment in the case of (1) Reed Executive Plc (2) Reed Solutions Plc v (1) Reed Business Information Limited (2) Reed Elsevier (UK) Limited (3) totaljobs.com Limited. The case explored for the first time in any detail the extent to which the use of various optimisation techniques for Web sites could give rise to new forms of trade mark infringement and passing off. Ian Jeffery of Lewis Silkin reports on the case and offers his comments….
Cyberobscenity and the Ambit of English Criminal Law
Professor Michael Hirst of De Montfort University looks at a recent case and questions the Court of Appeals’s approach. Professor Hirst is a contributing author to Blackstone’s Criminal Practice and a widely published author on evidence and criminal law issues….
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New Chairmen for SCL: Interview with Nigel Miller
Nigel Miller of Fox Williams, is one of the new Joint Chairmen of SCL. Laurence Eastham interviewed him to find out something more about him and to pursue some of the points raised in the recent letter to members….
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Editorial
E-Conveyancing The timing of the publication of the Land Registry’s consultation document on e-conveyancing (www.e-conveyancing.gov.uk) meant that there was little point in this magazine merely reporting the proposals as they had been widely reported in mainstream publications. We have recently included considerable coverage of the general issues involved; indeed this issue looks at PISCES, which…