Scottish Group Report: E-Commerce
Ewan McIntyre is head of the IP/IT Group of Edinburgh law firm Robson McLean WS
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Intellectual Property
Case Report: Harbinger UK Limited v GE Information Services Limited
Michele Boote is an Associate in Theodore Goddard’s IT Litigation Group and acted for GE Information Services Limited at both the trial and the appeal….
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Code clarity comes up from down under
David Flint reviews two recent Australian decisions and reflects on the friction between copyright protection devices and devices restricting free trade and consumer use….
Data Protection Update
Rosemary Jay is a Senior Consultant atMasons (Manchester) and was formerly Legal Adviser to the Data ProtectionRegistrar. She may be contacted at rosemary.jay@masons.com Rosemary Jay Proposed Orders The Home Office has published a further seven draftorders under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 98) which are available on itsWeb site at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ccpd. The proposed orders…
More Buzzwords Busted
Delia Venables is a computer consultant for lawyers and is alsoeditor of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers and other Internet publicationsand co-author, with Nick Holmes, of the Butterworths book Researching the LegalWeb. She can be contacted on 01273 472424 or delia@venables.co.ukand her web pages are at http://www.venables.co.uk This article is the second of an occasional…
Are Lawyers Going to be Ready for the 21st Century?
Andrew Levison is a partner of Grant Thornton and Head ofIS Consultancy and can be contacted at andrew.w.levison@gtuk.com.A version of this article first appeared in Worldlaw Business magazine. ‘When will our firm be dragged into the 20th Century?’… During the lastdecade I have often heard lawyers comment on how frustrated they are with thedevelopment of…
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Harry Small – new Joint Chairman (Law) of SCL
Harry Small is the new Joint Chairman (Law) of SCL….
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From the Editor’s Chair
An insert for this issue is a veritable call to arms, lavishly disguised asan invitation to join SCL working groups at the initial launch and planningevent on 27th March. I shall not be tempted by the rhetoric of ‘Ask not whatyou can do for your Society’ but stick to two simple points. First, SCL can…
SCL Award 2000: Virtual Gets its own Award
SCL Award 2000 – The Report of the Event
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