Wendy Beecham was interviewed by Laurence Eastham, themagazine’s Co-ordinating Editor. The arrival of a new MD at Sweet & Maxwell, the oldest legal publisher,is not an obvious source of news for SCL’s members – a brief snippetperhaps, but hardly grounds for a full-scale interview. In fact such has beenthe frequency of change in that post…
Read More… from Wendy Beecham – New Head of Sweet & Maxwell/Westlaw UK
As part of our declared aim to keep readers aware of the latest cases, we publish brief summaries of the IT cases covered by Lawtel in October and November, plus one hot case from December.
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Millennium Legal Motorway The lasting mark for the millennium in my immediate neighbourhood is asweeping bridge and revitalised railway track – Black Dog Halt, the redundantstation, is now part of the scenery on the Millennium Cycleway. It seemed to mea fitting way to celebrate the event – something useful and lasting whichwould improve the quality…
Melonie Atraghji gives a brief account of one aspect of a recent domain name case, Global Projects Management Limited and another v Citigroup Inc and others, 17 October 2005….
A trainee solicitor at my firm recently told me that advice from her professional exam course was for students to avoid taking training positions with practices who did not have a case management system in place….
On 5 August 1999, the House of Lords ruled on an extraditioncase which has major implications for computer misuse cases. A report taken fromthe Butterworths ‘next-day’ reporting service, All ER Direct is reproducedbelow. The case is now fully reported at [1993] 4 All ER 1. The applicant was arrested at the request of the United…
Read More… from RE Allison; v Bow Street Magistrates’ Court, Ex Parte Allison
Free the Law By the time this issue hits members’ desks we will be only days away fromthe Free the Law event in London on 8 November. Regular readers will need noreminding that the issues concern making primary legal information freelyavailable on the Internet and the ways in which the information revolution canbe made to…
Peter Sommer examines the lessons to be taken from two recent prosecutions under the Computer Misuse Act 1990….
Rupert Kendrick LL.M is a Law Firm Management Consultant. He canbe contacted on 01234 782810, or by e-mail at RupertKendrick@compuserve.com Much has been written of the technological sophistication ofIntranets, but do lawyers really appreciate the potentially seismic effects theymight have on the management of the lawyer/client relationship? What is an Intranet? It might most easily…
John Ridd has worked in the technology industry for 15 years andis Managing Director of XTML, a specialist provider of permanent Internet accesssolutions. Their Web site is at www.xtml.co.uk The dramatic increase in the number of large commercial firms going onlinefar outweighs the number of smaller law firms. With over 10.5 million Internetusers in the…
Read More… from Why use the Internet? – A Back to Basics approach to the Internet