Tackling Crime in Cyberspace: A Legal Issue?
Helena Beasley’s essay is the winner of this year’s SCL Essay prize….
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Privacy & Data Protection
New OFT Guidance on IT Consumer Contracts
Nick Graham and Mark Young give the low-down on the OFT Guidance….
Contracting for Disaster
Kit Burden highlights the importance of contracts for disaster recovery and business continuity services and suggests some terms which require special attention….
Signing Hundreds of Contracts Online Made Easy.
Simon Deane-Johns and Tim Parlett explain how they used technology to leap over a major operational and regulatory hurdle….
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Construction of Contracts
Anna Cook examines judicial views on the weight to be attached to extrinsic evidence when interpreting contracts….
Denial of Service Attacks – Realism Prevails
Mark Lewis gives an account of the facts and judgment in DPP v Lennon [2006] EWHC 1201 (Admin) and considers the implications of the Divisional Court’s principal ruling…
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Staking out a Wider Domain
Mike Gardner comments on Tesco v Elogicom, which involved a battle over domain names incorporating the word “Tesco”….
Denial of Service Attacks and Computer Misuse
News on DPP v Lennon…
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The Next Ten Years
This is an edited transcript of the 2006 SCL Lecture given by Professor Richard Susskind OBE, which has created enormous interest. This version covers only four of the six headings covered in the Lecture itself….
Processing, Unfair Processing and Compensation
Renzo Marchini summarises and comments on the important judgment in David Paul Johnson v The Medical Defence Union Limited [2006] EWHC 321….
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