Commerce, Contracts & Finance Archives - Page 51 of 190

Subject Access Requests and Unfair Dismissal

September 27, 2016

Clare Edwards reflects on a recent employment tribunal ruling…

GDPR Conundrums: Processing Special Categories of Data

September 25, 2016

Lokke Moerel analyses the GDP’s provisions dealing with special categories of data and the crucial ambiguity surrounding when supervisory authorities need to be consulted…

Intelligent Contracts – Is this the Way Forward?

September 22, 2016

While all commercial contracts are supposed to encapsulate some of the drafter’s intelligence, Kevin Gidney explains a concept that seeks to go beyond this (and beyond smart contracts) and make fuller use of artificial intelligence. He also highlights some possible applications for Intelligent Contracts….

‘Durable Medium’ and Providing Information under the PSD

September 22, 2016

Chris Finney looks at a recent Attorney General’s Opinion and sees it as a useful prompt for financial services organisations to review their compliance with their duty to provide information to customers….

Brexit, Copyright and Liminality

September 19, 2016

Laurence Kaye considers the likely impact on the UK of the proposals from the EU Commission for a new Copyright Directive…

VKI v Amazon: Governing Law

September 5, 2016

Robert Bond considers a recent CJEU judgment that considered governing law clauses in consumer contracts and gave further guidance on the meaning of ‘establishment’ in the data protection context…

Honouring the Breach

August 31, 2016

A recent appeal against a monetary penalty notice shows the need to recognise a data breach where the duty to notify applies…

The Legal Consequences of Genetic Prediction

August 23, 2016

Aisling de Paor highlights some of the ethical and legal concerns arising with use of algorithms based on genetic information, and advocates the need to appropriately control and regulate these new technologies….