Data Sharing Code of Practice: SCL Response
The Society for Computers and Law Privacy and Data Protection Group has submitted a stimulating and constructive response to the ICO consultation on the data sharing code of practice…
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Predictions – Late Extras
The predictions banquet has finished but some of the best moments at such events involve late lingering liqueurs. These late predictions, from Harry Small on e-mail, cloud computing and breach of contract and from Alastair Morrison on Microsoft and SaaS, are worth reading over your Drambuie before taking the cab home….
New Case: Repudiatory Breach of Software System Contract
The judgment in De Beers UK Ltd v Atos Origin IT Services UK Ltd has been published and shows a sad tale of scope creep and competing claims to the right to repudiate. It also has interesting lessons on damages and quantum….
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Predictions 2011: Technology & Strategies for Lawyers – E-disclosure, E-evidence & Forensics
Each year we ask experts in a wide variety of fields for their views on the likely developments in the year ahead. This is a selection of the predictions published on the SCL web site that relate to technological developments that affect legal practice and the forecast changes for e-disclosure, electronic evidence and forensics…
Editorial
Future Content My heading suggests that I am about to outline our programme of articles and features for 2011. But, since our aim is always to respond with great agility to the events shaping the legal IT landscape, I cannot say that I know much about what is to come past February. My heading is…
Back to Basics: Exclusion and Limitation of Liability
In the second in our Back to Basics series, Michael Taylor and Matthew Lavy consider the drafting and effects of two types of clause that are almost inevitable features of IT contracts: the exclusion clause and the limitation of liability clause….
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Predictions 2011: IT Law & IT Trends
Each year we ask experts in a wide variety of fields for their views on the likely developments in the year ahead. This is a selection of the predictions published on the SCL web site that relate to IT law or which focus on the trends in IT which are likely to affect IT lawyers…
Back to Basics: Dispute Resolution by Expert Determination
Seen with increasing frequency in IT contract disputes, but still too often left in the wings, expert determination has the potential to play a major role in the resolution of IT-related disputes. David Blunt QC and Richard Osborne bring it into the full glare of the spotlight….
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Predictions – Fourth Course
Here is the fourth course in the predictions banquet. There are predictions from Chris Dale, Monica Horten and Mark Turner. Since I dare not allocate anyone to the cheese course, let’s call this coffee and mints or, given the season and the substantial fare that is still on offer, coffee and mince pies….
Software Copyright Infringement by the EU Commission
In a decision as remarkable for its amusement value as for its value as a precedent in law, the General Court has ordered the Commission to pay Systran liquidated damages of over €12 million…
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