The Court of Appeal has ruled in a case on the limits of disclosure and has given guidance on the approach where it is suggested that the duty to disclose arises under the Data Protection Act 1998 rather than the Civil Procedure Rules…
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These predictions from Matthew Lavy, Clive Freedman and Lilian Edwards are designed mainly to amuse on a cold December day, though Matthew starts sensibly enough. You may feel that many a true word is spoken in jest and that even the wildest of the ideas here has more than a grain of truth beneath it. You may well find yourself thinking ‘if only’….
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Here are some remarkably sound predictions on the future of IT law and related fields from IT lawyers Jane Seager, Simon Deane-Johns, Richard Graham and Toby Headdon and, from the academic world, Monica Horten and Marion Oswald, plus a stimulating suggestion for how SCL might change from regular contributor Alastair Morrison….
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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….
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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….
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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….