Roger Bickerstaff: SCL’s New Chair
Roger Bickerstaff has taken over as the SCL Chair after almost six years as a Trustee of SCL. SCL has new trustees too….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Boldness Be My Friend – A Year On
At the SCL Forum in September, Graham Smith spoke about the regulation of the Internet and what he saw as the best way forward. This article is an edited version of the views expressed in that talk. These are his personal views, not attributable to his law firm or to any client. A series of articles arising from the Forum will be published in the New Year – this one is very much for now as Leveson looms and decisions on the Communications Bill and social media prosecutions are considered….
No Proprietary Right in E-mails
The High Court has ruled on a company’s claim which asserted a proprietary right in the content of e-mails held by its former CEO…
CPD Online: Outsourcing in Financial Services Seminar
Questions arising from the SCL Seminar on Outsourcing in Financial Services held on 16 October 2012 at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course Code HW/SFCL3. 1.5 hours of CPD…
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Monetary Penalty for Data Inaccuracy
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a monetary penalty for data inaccuracy, the first such penalty to relate to faults in data handling beyond the confines of simple data loss…
Open Standards Principles Now in Force
Government bodies must comply with the ‘Open Standards Principles’ with effect from 1 November…
ICO Consultation on the Notification Process
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published a consultation on changes to the notification process that affects data controllers….
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Book Reviews: Three Books and a Thing and a Half
Laurence Eastham looks at three books with very different aims, and two things that may or may not be books but that cannot be separated without a close inspection….
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SCL Conference Report: IT Law Hot Topics 2012
Helen Hart reports on Tuesday’s SCL Annual Conference ‘IT Law Hot Topics 2012: The IT law you need for 2013’…
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Privacy’s Greatest Threat and How to Overcome It
Phil Lee makes his observations on the regulation of privacy and closes with a rallying call for technology-neutral, proportionate legislation that delivers meaningful data protection in practice….
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