Jimmy Desai looks at the new TUPE Regulations and lays particular emphasis on their implications for IT outsourcing deals….
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Catherine Reed explains why the three most important rules in house purchase are also important rules in data handling. Your location can be data and some stringent rules apply to that data….
Stephen Mason reviews the latest edition of this work by Diane Rowland and Elizabeth Macdonald (Cavendish Publishing Limited, third edition, 2005) ISBN 1-85941-756-6. £35….
Two new groups have been announced and a full programme of KM Group events revealed….
This is a selection of the predictions on the SCL Web site made by leading legal IT experts and IT lawyers….
Paul Russell looks at the legal barriers to full CRM (customer relationship management) integration in local government and suggests that cultural barriers may really be the main stumbling block….
“Freedom of contract has fallen, but I cannot believe that it has fallen that far” remarked HHJ Bowsher in Grovedeck Ltd v Capital Demilition Ltd. Although his remark was expressed in a different context, Adrian Hughes and James Bowling take the view that freedom of contract is on the march again in the approach of the courts to clauses allocating risk in IT contracts…
Jimmy Desai offers a short summary of the topics that all IT lawyers need to consider when advising on data centre contracts…
The regulatory limitations affecting international transfers of personal data have been a controversial issue since the early nineties. Even before the deadline for implementation of the 1995 Data Protection Directive kicked in, businesses across the European Union struggled to find a way to accommodate their normal data sharing and communication practices to the impending legislation….
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Kit Burden explains why IT security matters to technology lawyers or at least should matter. This article is based on his presentation to the Law Society of Scotland/SSCL Conference earlier this year…
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