This event mixed celebration with illumination. A full transcript of the lecture is now available as well as Richard Harrison’s sparkling report of the event….
Legal Knowledge Management Group Plans for the creation of this new Interest Group are now well advanced. It is to be formed in March and the prime movers behind its creation are looking for interested SCL members to contact Caroline Gould to register their interest. Both ordinary members and those with a real commitment to…
Richard Christou, who gave the SCL 30th Anniversary Lecture, brought a unique perspective to his role. He became Chief Executive of Fujitsu Services after many years of acting as a Legal Director there and in other large businesses and he is also the author of leading texts in IT law. This is an edited extract from his lecture, focusing on just one element of a carefully linked series. The full transcript is available on the SCL site….
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James Catchpole LLM reviews Technology Outsourcing: A Practitioners’s Guide, edited by John Angel (Law Society Publishing – £79.95)…
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Jeremy Holt reviews the latest version of this loose-leaf from Thomson/Gee….
Mike Butler of Hammonds draws attention to the latest consultation paper and draft guidance from the OFT….
2004 is SCL’s 30th Anniversary – and it is going to be a very positive and exciting year for the Society. The Society has two new Trustees, Kit Burden and Bill Jones, and they will bring new ideas and the backing of their considerable reputations to SCL business. There is renewed interest in the use…
The magazine’s Co-ordinating Editor, Laurence Eastham, met with Robin James, Senior Programme Manager for EDS Justice, in November and discussed with him the way in which EDS operates and his personal views on court technology….
Online auction sites have grown in popularity. James Mitchell looks at the legal status of these sites by drawing a comparison with ‘physical’ auctions. His article also highlights differences, considers the formation and effect of contracts in this process, especially the legal position and remedies of unhappy buyers and the jurisdictional issues….
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Software bombs have been commonplace in the IT industry for many years. Tim Sewart addresses a question asked of him on a number of occasions: are they legal?…