Sarah Ahmed is a Partner and Head of the Commercial Departmentat Anthony Gold Lerman & Muirhead. She can be contacted on 0171 940 4000. Management consultancy, including computer consultancy, is one of theso-called ‘new professions’ who can buy insurance labelled ‘professionalindemnity’ to underwrite their competence. The case of Stephenson Blake (Holdings) Ltd v Streets Heaver…
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Will you mark the millennium by winning or nominating the winner for thisprestigious Award? Since its inception in 1989 over 250 organisations have been nominated forthe award and a record entry is expected in this 25th Anniversary year of theSociety. Each year the profile of the Society’s Award for the most outstandingapplication of Information Technology…
The Scottish Group’s Annual Lecture and Supper was held in Edinburgh
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Elizabeth Thompson of Avizandum Law Books reports on a Meeting of the Scottish Group held at Bird Semple, Glasgow, 10 May 1999.
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Brian Bennett explains that compliant e-mail archiving introduces significant operational benefits….
Rosemary Jay is Legal Adviser to the Data Protection Registrar.This is the first in an occasional series of updating columns. It has to be said that the victories of local football teams have figuredlarge in discussions in the Registrar’s office over the last few weeks anddays but some time has been spared to consider other…
Jemima Stratford is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers, London,who specialises in European law including competition law, and in human rightslaw. Jemima is co-author with fellow barrister James Flynn of Competition:Understanding the 1998 Act (Palladian, 1999) The Competition Act 1998 introduces radical and long overdue reforms of UKcompetition law. When the Act received Royal Assent…
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Karen Leyshon is a IT Specialist Solicitor with Morgan Cole,based in Reading. On 1 January 1998 the European Directive on Databases was introducedinto UK law by way of the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997. Itwould seem to be a good time now, more than one year later, to reflect on howthe new legislation…
We should be thankful that the UK government has at last abandoned key escrow.It is worrying that they ever took it seriously. It is clear from the recent ‘Building trust in electronic commerce’consultative paper that they do not fully understand the technology or the waythe internet market needs to work. On presentation of a suitable…