Legal Aspects of Information Security Management

In internet commerce[1] where technology risks such as systems failure or attacks are particularly accentuated and the “risk turnaround time” is much faster, the need to design and develop a proactive and structured legal protection regime has become a corporate imperative. Zaid Hamzah points the way forward in designing and developing a legal risk management system in Internet commerce at both the strategic as well as the operational level that would protect enterprises from legal problems that might flow from information security risks….

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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…

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The Application of Information Technology

In this piece, Alastair Morrison reviews the pressures on solicitors and the courts arising from IT implementation. He analyses the position of smaller firms and looks at the prospects for XML and AI. This was originally submitted as a dissertation for the degree of LLM at the University of Strathclyde. It is rare for SCL to accept such material but this is a useful examination of various commentators’ views….

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International Business and e-arbitration

The Internet is being waved in front of businesses large and small as the future for prosperity. The oft-touted battle cry is ‘benefit from a world market at your fingertips’. Nevertheless, despite government pressure to join the fray, the EU reports that many smaller businesses (SMEs) are reluctant to go online. They also conclude that access to affordable alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary to give SMEs confidence in cross-border trading. It is easy enough to pinpoint a need but developing a real solution, E-Arbitration-T, has been a much longer story with players across Europe….

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