Editorial October/November 2017
Laurence Eastham explains why he broke his own rules, reviews the latest issue and warns of a coming reckoning…
Lawtech & Lawyers
Data Protection: Controllers, Processors, Contracts, Liability – the ICO Draft Guidance
Kuan Hon offers a careful analysis and critique of the ICO draft guidance on contracts between controllers and processors…
New High Court Judgment on Limited Liability
The High Court has given judgment on preliminary issues affecting terms of a contract for IT services which sought to limit liability. The judge’s views on the limitation of liability clauses might tempt readers to tighten up their drafting….
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Making Escrow Work in a SaaS Environment
Paul Berwin suggests an innovative solution to a long-standing problem that has been given a tricky new twist…
GDPR: Data Protection Impact Assessments
Olivia Whitcroft takes a careful look at DPIAs in light of the further guidance on the GDPR that has been issued since its finalisation…
Book Review: Data Localization Laws and Policy
Laurence Eastham reviews this close examination of international transfers from W Kuan Hon (Edward Elgar Publishing, 479 pp, £110/£99, ISBN 978 1 78643 196 7; also available as an ebook)….
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RegTech: When Regulation Meets Technology
What is RegTech? Lorraine Chimbga and Ryan Barnes give the answers and explain why it is having an impact on the financial industry and how it might have an impact on lawyers too….
Cloud Transformation: How to Steer Clear of the Storms
Kit Burden applies his unrivalled expertise and experience to an analysis of developments in cloud computing contracts, identifying the key emerging challenges…
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SAP v Diageo and Limits on Licences
Andrew Crystal and Eliot Henderson cover a significant ruling for software customers and providers, in which the High Court found that Diageo breached the ‘Named User’ pricing mechanism of its software licence agreement with SAP….
CPD Online: SCL Foundations of IT Law Programme Cycle 2: Module 9 – Cloud Computing
Questions arising from the SCL Foundations of IT Law Programme: Module 9 – Cloud Computing course held on 18 January 2017. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC50 – CPD: 2 hours…
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