Data Protection Enforcement Powers
Shelley Thomas looks at the power to impose monetary penalties and gives a detailed account of its use to date….
Intellectual Property
A Co-op Divi for Law and Technology?
Following its successful application for an ABS licence under the Legal Services Act, I guess we now have to stop talking about Tesco law and call it Co-op law. Why does it matter for technology and the law? It may matter in relation to attitudes to legal services delivery at the low price end of the market and the extent to which IT can be used to support it….
The Legal Case for PDF/A
Gary Hodkinson highlights the problems with digital document archiving, explains how the US is leading the way in enforcing new document archiving legislation and why the UK needs to be prepared…
IFCLA 2012: Call for Topics
Munich is the host city for the IFCLA Conference 2012 and the Call for Topics is now open…
Internet Infringement of Personality Rights: ECJ Judgment
In a new ruling, the ECJ finds that victims of infringements of personality rights by means of the internet may bring actions before the courts of the Member State in which they reside in respect of all of the damage caused. But the operator of an internet website covered by the e-commerce directive cannot be made subject, in that State, to stricter requirements than those provided for by the law of the Member State in which it is established…
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Judgment Day for BAILII
This article is the product of an exchange between Nick Holmes of Infolaw and Sir Henry Brooke, retiring chairman of the BAILII trustees. It deals with a number of issues relating to BAILII and how it operates, including issues raised in a recent piece in the Guardian….
Creating an Online Legal Tool
Laurence Eastham talked to two new entrants in the still emerging field of online solutions to legal problems for consumers. Tom Hiskey and Rob Blake are the founders of The Law Wizard, the company behind forthcoming online probate tool The Probate Wizard. Tom is a probate lawyer who resigned from his job as a practising solicitor in the Yorkshire region to start The Law Wizard with Rob. Rob provides the technical vision – he is a specialist in cloud computing and system development….
Cloud Computing: Competition Law Challenges
Simon Taylor and Lucas Bornico look at cloud computing from the perspective of competition law…
Back to Basics: Intellectual Property Warranties in Commercial Contracts
In the latest article in our Back to Basics series, Christoff Pienaar looks at IP warranties and some of the issues that go with the transfer of IP rights….
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Café Culture
A head-spinning day at the SCL Conference…