Predictions 2006: A Miscellany
This is a selection of the predictions on the SCL Web site made by leading legal IT experts and IT lawyers….
Intellectual Property
Local Government and CRM – The Legal Issues
Paul Russell looks at the legal barriers to full CRM (customer relationship management) integration in local government and suggests that cultural barriers may really be the main stumbling block….
IT SECURITY – What Every Technology Lawyer Needs to Know about IT Security
Kit Burden explains why IT security matters to technology lawyers or at least should matter. This article is based on his presentation to the Law Society of Scotland/SSCL Conference earlier this year…
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Court technology – Electronic Benchmarks
Childcare cases have often led the way in litigation procedure. Many long-standing care lawyers will say that they were agreeing single joint experts long before the Civil Procedure Rules were even thought of, necessitated by multiplicity of parties, complex medical evidence and numerous expert reports. Tony Roe reports that now the High Court has made a plea…
Disclosure – Redefining the Rules of Engagement
Victoria Cooper thinks that the Cresswell Report underestimates the attractions of tape back-up…
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Knowledge Management – Data Tagging for Law Firms
Adam Westbrooke argues the importance of data tagging but explains that its importance does not dictate that it must be complex….
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Trade Marks, Search Engines and Fair Play
The Internet has opened up new channels of communication and ways of doing business. It has generated new possibilities for businesses to compete effectively in the open market. It has also created new ways in which companies (and individuals) can engage in commercial mischief such as exploiting the property rights of others without authorisation. In…
New Classicism? Freedom of Contract, Risk Distribution and Recent Trends in the Drafting of IT Contracts
“Freedom of contract has fallen, but I cannot believe that it has fallen that far” remarked HHJ Bowsher in Grovedeck Ltd v Capital Demilition Ltd. Although his remark was expressed in a different context, Adrian Hughes and James Bowling take the view that freedom of contract is on the march again in the approach of the courts to clauses allocating risk in IT contracts…
Generic v Specific Software
The more I researched and considered the issue, the more convinced I became (as I thought I would) that indeed considerably more can be done with generic products than most firms probably appreciate and that this is going to increase steadily over the coming years. This is a debate whose time has truly come and…