BAILII – Five Year Celebration Meeting
This is a transcript of the formal part of the meeting on Monday, 1st November 2004….
Intellectual Property
Generic v Specific Software
Alastair Morrison responds to the call in an issue of the magazine for articles on whether generic software can do most of the IT work required by the legal profession…
New Rules for Inboxes
Unsolicited e-mail and overflowing inboxes are a new cyber hazard. This article on inboxes from Nigel Miller looks at the problem. It was first published in the Solicitors Journal….
Seamless Roaming and the Legal Organisation: Choosing a Partner
The legal marketplace is truly dynamic. The opening up of new markets, increased competition and demands from clients mean law firms need to maintain their competitive advantage, keep fee earners and staff happy and reduce business process times, complexities and costs. Furthermore, the increasing pace of mergers, acquisitions and general re-structuring of business is driving…
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The Right of Oblivion, Data Culling and Conservation – Charting the Development of the Fifth Principle
From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. Only the quote is from Dryden, the article is from Jeremy Warner of the University of Strathclyde. He undertakes an in-depth study of the development of the principle….
‘Counting the Cost of Poor CRM Strategies’
Martin Ashfiled of Performance House explains why, with over 60% of queries not being resolved and 25% of calls not being charged for, law firms need to pay attention to client relationship management (CRM), or else pay the price of delivering an unacceptable service….
E-Commerce
Comments on the Draft Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and on the Guidance Notes issued to explain them…
What Every Technology Lawyer Needs to Know about IT Security
Kit Burden explains why IT security matters, or should matter….
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Processing Anonymous Data
It was generally assumed that data which did not identify individuals fell outside the scope of the Data Protection Act 1998 and therefore the restrictions imposed on the use of “personal data” did not apply. However, recent legal guidance issued by the UK Information Commissioner has thrown this into doubt. Partner Nigel Wildish and assistant Marcus Turle, of the IT & E-commerce group at City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, discuss why data controllers may have to rethink how anonymous data are handled….
E-Commerce
The Society for Computers and Law Internet Interest Group Comments on the Draft Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and on the Guidance Notes issued to explain them [The draft Regulations are available at http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/docs/regulations.pdf,the guidance for business is available at http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/docs/guidance.pdf.] Introduction The Society for Computers and Law is the leading UK organisation for…