Kit Burden is a Senior Assistant Solicitor at Barlow Lyde &Gilbert Kit specialises in IT, IP and commercial contract issues. As the volume of communication via the Internet by both social andbusiness users continues to rocket upwards, attention has increasingly focusedon the role played by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in particular inrelation to the postings…
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…
Tamzin Mathews reviews Stephen Mason’s book and highly recommends it….
Andrew Katz, Brethertons Thank you for yet another interesting and informative Computers and Law.May I be permitted to make the following point about computer cryptography: Since the technology is now widely available to enable anyone with access tothe Internet to encrypt information in a way which we are led to believe ispractically uncrackable (for example…
Jon Vogler, Active Backup Delia Venables’ Ten Tasks for 1999 (Dec/Jan issue) was practical anddown-to-earth advice. But by writing (in this and earlier articles) exclusivelyabout PCs she is creating the problems her advice aims to solve. Phrases like`their networks do not run very well’ or `are people allowed to put disks intotheir own PCs’ or…
As the millennium approaches, society is changing.
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Read More… from The Millennium Law Practice: A Major SCL Conference
The Council of SCL has been strengthened by the addition of three new members with very different backgrounds and interests.
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