John Angel, formerly head of Clifford Chance’s online legal services and now a senior visiting fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, looks at the future prospects for e-commerce in the law. Is it an optional extra? Does it hold the key to future profitability? Or is it just an awkward necessity?…
Ben Coppin of Envisional Limited looks into the problem highlighted by e-mail invitations to collect weight loss drugs or Viagra online….
Marly Didizian and Suzanne Rodway of Linklaters examine direct marketing and unsolicited communications in depth….
Over the last century, apart from direct testimony, paper evidence has been the most compelling form of evidence in trying criminal and civil cases. However, with the advent of computers and information technology the dependence on paper documents as the major source of evidence, other than testimony, is changing. The real question, say Chris O’Reilly (Director of International Litigation Support at LDM) and Jason Derting (who owns Pacific Legal), is whether the legal community has kept pace with the phenomenal growth in computer technology and whether it is aware of the significance of computer-generated data in the disclosure process….
A digest of an edition of Bleak House updated to take account of modern developments and reforms and to convey the impression that everything in the legal garden is rosy, the fog having been quite swept away. Edited by Richard Harrison…
This issue is accompanied by the brochure for the Annual IT Law Review, held in Bath in November. But it is not the only major IT law event from SCL in the coming months. The Internet Interest Group is hosting an International Symposium in October….
The Holman case has once again highlighted the risk of claims against suppliers for wasted management time in IT implementation disputes. Tim Strong, partner in the IT dispute resolution team at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, reviews the development of claims of this nature, taking a look at some of the general principles applied by the courts in assessing damages….
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Richard Brockbank responds to Richard Harrison’s article in the Feb/March issue (vol12, issue 6), The E-mail of the Species. He maintains an understandably greater faith in litigation support systems….
Professor Michael Hirst of De Montfort University looks at a recent case and questions the Court of Appeals’s approach. Professor Hirst is a contributing author to Blackstone’s Criminal Practice and a widely published author on evidence and criminal law issues….
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Lee Harris of DeltaSeal Software looks at encryption and e-mail control and gives a positive view on the value of e-mail….