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Alex Newson gives an overview of the legal issues from an EU & US law perspective. This is an updated version of the original article, taking account of the appeal ruling in Perfect 10 v Google….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
‘Greater Force’ – or a Good Excuse for Non-performance?
Christoff Pienaar looks at force majeure and its effect on contracts. Bearing in mind that force majeure clauses inserted into outsourcing and IT services could seriously undermine a customer’s disaster recovery plans, the concept of ‘greater force’ needs to be very fully understood….
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SCL Questionnaire on OGC Standard Contracts
A chance to influence OGC standard contracts for SCL members….
E-disclosure, Needles and Haystacks
Alex Charlton and Matthew Lavy recount their recent experience of e-disclosure in an article that might well be entitled ‘E-disclosure: Where it went wrong (and how we can fix it).’…
Standard Contracts – Supporting the Government’s Transforming Procurement Agenda
John Kenyon highlights the advantages of the OGC standard contracts….
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A Benchmark for Benchmark Clauses
Growth in the use of benchmarking has been more than matched by moans and groans about the process and the anomalies it can throw up. Neil Barton applies his wide experience to offer advice on improving the drafting and implementation of benchmarking clauses….
Public Sector Procurement of Next Generation Networks
In March 2007, the OGC published new guidance and standards for the procurement of Next Generation Networks by the public sector. Callum Sinclair looks at the background and drivers behind the production of this documentation, gives an overview of the content and considers how it fits together with existing OGC guidance and model contracts for ICT procurement….
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Spam: managing a solution
You may have seen – or indeed, if you were unfortunate, have been involved in – a recent high profile attack on the legal profession, which took place via email and attempted to retrieve the banking details of those individuals targeted. James Turnbull outlines how the legal sector, like virtually every other industry, is now officially under attack from the scourge of the spammer….
European Commission Consultation on Consumer Law
Helen Hart considers this consultation process, which has important implications for online sales….
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Editorial
OGC Survey The great success of the SCL Conference in Oxford in November was that it created an increased dialogue between the public sector and the private sector. Of course from the very beginning the behaviour of occasional adversaries was exemplary but so it was in the age of chivalry – when there was…