On 8 July 2013 Pinsent Masons LLP hosted a session on e-learning, chaired by Rachel Wood, Head of Knowledge at Pinsent Masons. Rachel has written a report of the meeting….
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Mark Taylor, Rachel Savary and Ben Regnard-Weinrabe clear some of the fog that surrounds the virtual currency concept, explore what regulation might apply to virtual currencies and pay special attention to Bitcoin….
Kuan Hon reviews the latest edition of Data Protection Law & Practice by Rosemary Jay (4th edition (2012), Sweet & Maxwell (hardcover), £245)…
The Court of Appeal has allowed the appeal of Fairstar against the High Court ruling that it had no right to disclosure of e-mails held by its former chief executive…
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I cannot find a comfortable position on this one but I have one special worry…
The FA Premier League has succeeded in its attempt to get the UK’s leading ISPs to block a site streaming sports coverage in breach of copyright…
In the light of yet another cancelled public sector IT project – this time the BBC’s new content management system – Rory Graham takes a personal look at why so many public sector technology deals go wrong, and what needs to change….
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Simon Worthy offers a view on the dangers of TOR and the perceived inadequacies of reaction to the dangers it seems willingly to embrace. Whether it is really Dantesque and whether all hope should be abandoned is a matter that SCL members may wish to debate….
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James Smith reports on the SCL Seminar held at Speechly Bircham on 26 June 2013…
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Michael Wigley looks at a recent High Court judgment and the lessons that flow from it…
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