Jonathan Carter Shaw is a solicitor in Manches’ IT group and isbased in Oxford. He can be contacted by telephone on 01865 722 106 or by e-mailon jonathan.cartershaw@manches.co.uk In Microsoft Corporation v Plato Technology Limited [1999]Masons CLR 87, the High Court stated that,where a person had infringedintellectual property rights in software, the relief it would…
Kit Burden is a Senior Assistant Solicitor at Barlow Lyde &Gilbert Kit specialises in IT, IP and commercial contract issues. As the volume of communication via the Internet by both social andbusiness users continues to rocket upwards, attention has increasingly focusedon the role played by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in particular inrelation to the postings…
Rosemary Jay is Legal Adviser to the Data Protection Registrar.This is the first in an occasional series of updating columns. It has to be said that the victories of local football teams have figuredlarge in discussions in the Registrar’s office over the last few weeks anddays but some time has been spared to consider other…
Lucinda Acland is a solicitor at Lovell White Durrant whose role as litigation support and IT lawyer is to maximise the use of technology in support of litigation….
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A past Chairman of SCL(1990-92), Richard Susskind is the author of The Future of Law (OUP,1998 paperback). He is IT Adviser to the Lord ChiefJustice, he consults to leading professional firms and lectures internationally.His e-mail address is richardsusskind@msn.com….
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John and Rosemary are partners with Oxley & Coward, a nicheIT law firm (www.oxcow.co.uk)….
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The authors are members of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) ), a non-profit civil liberties organisation which was founded in January 1997 withthe aim of promoting free speech and privacy in regard to the Internet. Yaman Akdeniz spoke on these issues to the Internet Interest Group on 22 March….
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Andrew Katz, Brethertons Thank you for yet another interesting and informative Computers and Law.May I be permitted to make the following point about computer cryptography: Since the technology is now widely available to enable anyone with access tothe Internet to encrypt information in a way which we are led to believe ispractically uncrackable (for example…
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“Bounds should be set/To ingenuity for being so cruel/In bringing change unheralded on the unready” (Robert Frost). Sian Warren and Paul Motion reflect on the civil courts in Scotland, the bringing of change and the effect on the unready….
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