New OFT Guidance on IT Consumer Contracts
Nick Graham and Mark Young give the low-down on the OFT Guidance….
Intellectual Property
Signing Hundreds of Contracts Online Made Easy.
Simon Deane-Johns and Tim Parlett explain how they used technology to leap over a major operational and regulatory hurdle….
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Construction of Contracts
Anna Cook examines judicial views on the weight to be attached to extrinsic evidence when interpreting contracts….
Sourcing in a Multi-Vendor Environment
Duncan Pithouse considers some of the principal contractual issues arising when implementing a multi-sourcing strategy….
Denial of Service Attacks – Realism Prevails
Mark Lewis gives an account of the facts and judgment in DPP v Lennon [2006] EWHC 1201 (Admin) and considers the implications of the Divisional Court’s principal ruling…
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Staking out a Wider Domain
Mike Gardner comments on Tesco v Elogicom, which involved a battle over domain names incorporating the word “Tesco”….
Editorial
The public sector is under an enormous amount of pressure to be seen to be doing something about IT. That pressure has been applied for many years, by Government decrees and some wildly optimistic targets for e-government. But it also arises from real world expectations and the need to save money, which IT-related increases in…
Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World
Laurence Eastham reviews a new book from Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu. OUP. 226 pp. £16.99 hardback. ISBN 0 – 19 – 515266-2….
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International Libel and Privacy Handbook
Danilo Leonardi reviews “International Libel & Privacy Handbook: A Global Reference for Journalists, Publishers, Webmasters, and Lawyers” edited by Charles J. Glasser Jr., Bloomberg Press: New York, 2006: 384 pp, £55 (distributed in the UK by Kogan Page)…
Tackling Crime in Cyberspace: A Legal Issue?
Helena Beasley’s essay is the winner of this year’s SCL Essay prize….
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