Renzo Marchini reports on the Court of Appeal’s judgment on 1 April in Cyprotex Discovery Ltd v The University of Sheffield [2004] EWCA Civ 380….
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Judge Woodward and his staff gave Laurence Eastham a tour of the pilot scheme for Virtual Plea and Directions Hearings which is in place at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester and an account of the other IT-related projects that aim to increase the efficiency of the administration of criminal justice….
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The inaugural meeting of the SCL’s new IT Disputes Interest Group was a sell-out. I have no doubt that much of the credit goes to His Honour Peter Bowsher QC, whose presentation was so much anticipated and so enthusiastically received (I hope to print a version in a forthcoming issue). But I am sure that…
Google’s power as a search tool gives it immense commercial power too. Nigel Miller reviews the effect of its sale of keywords on trademarks. This is an edited version of an article which first appeared in the Solicitors’ Journal….
As Nigel Miller observes in his introductory remarks in the full programme for this event, computer law issues are especially likely to cross jurisdictional boundaries and IT lawyers need to know something of the law and practice outside their home jurisdiction to be fully effective. This conference provides an opportunity to acquire that knowledge in…
Eduardo Ustaran reviews Electronic Signatures in Law by Stephen Mason, published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths. £95. ISBN 0406 97006 8….
South African attorney Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn assesses potential liability for the e-mail that gets filtered out by spam filtering software….
This event mixed celebration with illumination. A full transcript of the lecture is now available as well as Richard Harrison’s sparkling report of the event….
Have you got a war story from an attempt to negotiate peace? Clive Freeman is looking for input from SCL members to enrich the second meeting of the IT Disputes Group….
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This article is adapted from a talk given by Clive Davies of Olswang at the SCL Third Annual IT Law Conference….
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