Kit Burden suggests a sensible approach to controlling costs in outsourcing arrangements when the additional pressures created by a period of financial stringency are being felt….
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Emma Lenthall and Rebecca Harman-Wilson look at contempt of court and the real risks that face website operators as publishers of infringing material….
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Organisations that hold confidential information regarding their clients on computers are under no legal obligation to report the loss or theft of the data, warns David Ashmore…
Alexandra Harrison believes that a new avenue for civil discovery is appearing on the horizon – the discoverability of sound recordings….
James Tuke looks at the way in which law firms or adapting their Web sites to take account of Web 2.0 technology….
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Colin Hadden believes that a new breed of enterprise search technology can make a difference to law firms in a harsher economic climate….
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Emily Barber and Nigel Gilroy look at the problem of counterfeit goods for sale on eBay – and the headaches that the leading online marketplace bring for trade mark owners….
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This piece by Stephan Buck won the SCL Essay prize 2008. It is Stephan’s aproach to the official essay title ‘Virtual Properties and Virtual Economies: How should activities with economic consequences in virtual worlds like ‘Sec-ond Life’ and ‘Everquest’ be dealt with by real-world legal systems?’…
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