Give Me Back My Bitcoins
If your Bitcoin fortune has gone missing, Michael Taylor has an analysis of your legal right of redress…
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
SCL Event Report: Software Licensing Law: Foundations of IT Law – Module 1
Mike Reed reports on the first in the ground-breaking series of modules in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, an event which took place at Wragge & Co on 25 November 2013…
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No Copyright in Software Functionality – SAS v WPL Final Chapter
David Cran and Adam Cusworth look back on the long-running dispute in SAS v WPL and analyse the recent culminating judgment of Lewison LJ in the Court of Appeal…
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Further Criminal Prosecution under the DPA
A GP surgery manager has been prosecuted for illegally
accessing patients’ medical records…
Agile Contracting: The K03
Tom Holsøe and Mia Thulstrup Gedbjerg describe the genesis and characteristics of a new Danish standard contract for long-term IT projects based on an
agile method…
Predictions 2014: Batch 1
The Christmas music has been in the shops for weeks and a Christmas card has been received so it must be time for the SCL Predictions to begin. In strict alphabetical order, and in a complete reversal of the Christmas song, we begin with 12 lords (and ladies) a leaping: Kit Burden, Jan Durant, Beverley Flynn, Paul Gershlick, Andrew Haslam, Tom Hiskey, Stewart James, Daniel Pollick, Joe Reevy, John Salmon, Callum Sinclair and Peter Sommer…
Cake or Death?
With the Upper Tribunal suggesting that seeking a discount on a data protection monetary penalty notice and still appealing was to have the cake and eat it too, Paul Motion and Laura Irvine ask how you can lose the right to appeal a £500,000 data fine….
Court of Appeal Judgment in SAS v WPL
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the SAS appeal against the ruling of Arnold J in the High Court. But the comments on the High Court judgment and the reasoning behind it are of real interest….
Private Investigators Convicted of Unlawfully Obtaining Personal Information
Two men who ran a company that tricked organisations into revealing personal details about customers were found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act on 20 November….
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SCL Meeting Report: ‘Online Advertising Masterclass: Display, Data, Search and Social’.
On 6 November 2013, Bristows LLP hosted the latest session organised by the SCL Media Group which proved extremely popular. The session covered various aspects of online advertising and was chaired by Paul Jordan, head of the advertising team at Bristows. Sacha Wilson, an associate at Bristows, reports on the session….