Rosemary Jay is Legal Adviser to the Data Protection Registrar.This is the first in an occasional series of updating columns. It has to be said that the victories of local football teams have figuredlarge in discussions in the Registrar’s office over the last few weeks anddays but some time has been spared to consider other…
Jemima Stratford is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers, London,who specialises in European law including competition law, and in human rightslaw. Jemima is co-author with fellow barrister James Flynn of Competition:Understanding the 1998 Act (Palladian, 1999) The Competition Act 1998 introduces radical and long overdue reforms of UKcompetition law. When the Act received Royal Assent…
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Karen Leyshon is a IT Specialist Solicitor with Morgan Cole,based in Reading. On 1 January 1998 the European Directive on Databases was introducedinto UK law by way of the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997. Itwould seem to be a good time now, more than one year later, to reflect on howthe new legislation…
Tamzin Mathews reviews Stephen Mason’s book and highly recommends it….
John Gailey of Advanced Recognition Ltd, Member Scottish GroupCommittee & John Sibbald of Professional Library Services, Chairman of theScottish Group consider the new Scottish Court Web site (www.scotcourts.gov.uk),launched on 24 February, which marked a milestone in the justice system not onlyfor Scotland but for the United Kingdom as a whole. The authors review the siteand…
Phil Kelly is a Partner with John G. Gray of Edinburgh and anactive member of the SCL Scottish Group. She can be contacted on 0131 557 4452or at pkelly@johnggray.demon.co.uk My initial contact with home computers was about 20 years ago when my husbandand I gave our then 12-year-old son his first computer. He carefully programmedit…
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Michael Robinson is IT Director at Bevan Ashford. You cancontact him on m.robinson@bevanashford.co.uk In common with many organisations, Bevan Ashford is experiencing asteady rise in the number of staff requiring remote access to our systems. Withmobile and remote working becoming so common-place you would imagine that itwould be simple to implement; well it is and…
Whether they like it or not, lawyers will soon have to respond to client demand to provide their services electronically….
Heather Rowe is a Partner at Lovell White Durrant….
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John MacKenzie is an Associate with Bird Semple Tech Media. He advises Inner Workings Limited in relation to contentious intellectual property matters….