The DPP has launched a public consultation on prosecutions involving social media communications and has published interim guidelines…
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that restriction of Internet access without a strict legal framework regulating the scope of the ban and affording the guarantee of judicial review to prevent possible abuses amounts to a violation of freedom of expression…
Just as we started with a set of predictions from one firm (DLA Piper), we are closing (probably) with a set from lawyers at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP. Even if you are fed up with predictions by now, it is worth making an effort for this set of perceptive forecasts that go outside our normal comfort zone….
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Use of social media for collaborating and sharing knowledge internally…
Steve Ross tells us what issues business want dealt with in the European Commission’s standardised terms and conditions for cloud services, and why….
With immaculate timing, Chris Dale made his entrance to the predictions party just after the main guests, and just before the true latecomers (more from them tomorrow). His detailed predictions probably deserve their own slot anyway….
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Danielle Lodge looks at the judgment in E-Nik Ltd v Department for Communities and Local Government and the warning that it brings with it…
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The Information Commissioner’s Office is consulting on its draft subject access code…
The European Commission has accepted legally binding commitments from Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Hachette, Holtzbrinck and Apple for sale of e-books…
The Court of Appeal has ruled in a case on the limits of disclosure and has given guidance on the approach where it is suggested that the duty to disclose arises under the Data Protection Act 1998 rather than the Civil Procedure Rules…
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