IT Contracts Annual Update (CPD questions)
Questions to accompany the podcast of Richard Stephen’s masterly review of the key contract law cases of 2010. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL14 – 3 hours…
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Paved with Good Intentions
Andrew Charlesworth focuses on universities, freedom of information and open research – and reveals that combining these promising ingredients results in an unpalatable and potentially dangerous cocktail…
Towards ‘Open Lawyering’ – Revisiting The Future of Law
In an article arising from the SCL Policy Forum 2010, Jeremy Newton looks back at Richard Susskind’s ground-breaking book and examines the extent to which the paradigm has in fact shifted…
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Vive la Difference
This encourages a focus not only on “What is the problem” but “I can see there is a problem how can we fix it”…. It is for these reasons that we have established an In-House Group in SCL….
IT Contracts Seminar Report: Cases and Stories
David Chaplin reports on the Annual IT Contracts Update given by Richard Stephens…
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ICO Issues More Monetary Penalties
Two councils face monetary penalties for unencrypted laptop theft…
Ofcom Review of Digital Economy Act
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has announced that a review will assess whether website-blocking powers could work….
Reviewing the DEA
I thought you were supposed to find out if measures work before you include them in an Act of Parliament?…
Location, Location … Guidance on Applicable Law in International Data Processing Scenarios
EU regulators have issued new guidance on how to determine which Member State’s data protection rules apply in cross border commercial scenarios, including cloud computing. Claire Walker and Shona Kerr analyse that Opinion, but ask whether the objectives of the legislation might be better served by proper harmonisation of standards across Europe (and beyond)?…
Sharing of Costs – Draft Order Published
The Online Infringement of Copyright (Initial Obligations) (Sharing of Costs) Order 2011 has been published in draft form…