The Court of Appeal recently surveyed the usefulness of witness evidence obtained via consumer surveys in the context of a long-running Adwords dispute. Alexandra Brodie and Bonita Trimmer explain and highlight what might be the unexpected reach of the comments in the judgment….
Faye Weedon reports on the SCL Seminar held on 3 December that reflected a wide range of different European perspectives…
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These predictions come from a legal publisher, two writers and a supplier of articles, newsletters, and web content for law firms. Lexis’s Katherine Eyres, writers Joanna Goodman and Laurence Eastham and Joe Reevy from Words4business are today’s soothsayers. As you might expect from word dealers, there is quite a lot to read but don’t overlook Katherine’s timeline graphic in the download panel….
Read More… from Predictions 2013, and beyond: Part 5, Word Dealers
A leisure centre employee has been prosecuted for unlawfully obtaining health information of over 2,000 people…
Joel Smith and Christopher Sharp consider the recent Supreme Court decision concerning obtaining information about wrongdoers, particularly the use of Norwich Pharmacal relief and the balance to be struck with the data protection rights of individuals…
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Here are predictions from IT lawyers Graham Smith, Robin Fry and Beverley Flynn, focusing mainly on 2013….
Read More… from Predictions 2013, and beyond: Part 3, Some Prominent IT Lawyers
In the welter of coverage of the Leveson Report, data protection issues have not been given much prominence but they will matter to SCL members….
When you get Charles Christian, Jan Durant, Andrew Haslam and Charles Holloway in one predictions posting, the combined weight of experience and perception threatens to imbalance the Internet. We decided to risk it….
Read More… from Predictions 2013, and beyond: Part 2, Masters of Legal IT
The Information Commissioner’s Office issued monetary penalties totalling £440,000 in respect of two spam texters…
In this, my first blog as SCL Chair, I set out some of my thoughts on the way forward for SCL and acknowledge the enormous contribution of my predecessor as Chair, Clive Davies….