Meeting the Cybercrime Challenge
This is an extract from the speech of Lord Goldsmith QC, the Attorney-General, at the SCL Award ceremony on 21 January….
Litigation & DR
Strategies to Manage Legal Risks & Designing an Effective Risk Management Framework
If there is one constant that all businesses face throughout their life cycle, it would be managing legal risk exposures. Given the unique nature of information technology (IT) businesses, legal risk exposures can be particularly accentuated. The need to evolve a sound and proactive legal risk management framework as part of the enterprise’s legal strategy is becoming an imperative. A sound legal risk management framework should provide a seamless integration of legal contents or guidance with an IT-driven workflow process. Here expert systems can play an important role in the design of such legal risk management systems. Zaid Hamzah, CEO, Lexfutura (Global) and Managing Director, I-Knowledge Technologies, Singapore, provides a road map….
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The E-mail of the Species
Richard Harrison looks at the advance of e-mail and the problems it presents for dispute resolution procedures. He explains the need to be alert to prevent apparently comprehensive disclosure, in lists produced with the aid of technology, from pulling “the wool over the eyes of understanding”….
ISPs on Red Alert following Sweeping New Anti-terrorism Laws
The implications of the Government’s sweeping new laws to beef-up the fight against terrorism following September 11’s terror attacks on New York and Washington are likely to have far-reaching implications for all sectors of the economy. With limited debate taking place before the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 became law, many businesses seem ignorant of their wider responsibilities under the new legislation. Fiona Ghosh, a barrister specialising in data protection and IT at national law firm Addleshaw Booth & Co, looks at the new law and its impact on ISPs….
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Domain Name Registration Strategy
To register or not to register? That is the question tormenting many a soliliquising cyberDane, and many IP brand owners too. Dawn Osborne and Steve Palmer of Willoughby & Partners offer some criteria for decision and point to a useful strategy….
Expert Determination – A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
Those who have dealt with a failed systems development project know that the complex legal and factual issues that arise represent a veritable ‘dripping roast’ for dispute lawyers. Coupled with the advent of the new Civil Procedure Rules in 1999, it is little wonder that dispute resolution clauses in IT contracts have become ever more prescriptive. We now often find disputes being categorised into technical, legal or commercial issues and to each is then applied an escalating range of medicines, from meetings between executives, to mediation, litigation or more and more frequently expert determination. Tim Toomey of v-lex questions this extended use of expert determination….
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Can Technology Transform the Judicial System?
Can the legal system operate in new, innovative ways capitalising on what new technology has to offer? This is an abridged and edited version of Lord Justice Brooke’s speech at the Foundation for Science and Technology in December….
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Broadband Britain: Rhetoric vs Reality
Is the Government’s commitment to broadband real? Anneliese Reinhold from Kemp Little looks at two case studies, and wonders….
Account Aggregation
Emily Wiewiorka discusses the legislative anomalies facing account aggregators in the UK….
State of the Art Legal Web Sites
What makes a Web site ‘state of the art’? The dictionary definition doesn’t help much as state of the art equates to phrases like ‘up to the minute’ and ‘the latest and therefore the best’….