Solent Group Report: The Millennium Bug – The Legal Issues
Jackie Wilson, Chair of the Solent Group and a solicitor in private practice, reports on the meeting of 29 April….
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Privacy & Data Protection
Microsoft: Victim or Villain?
Microsoft’s battles with anti-trust regulators will continue even if Microsoft win their appeal in April 1998 and set aside the interiminjunction awarded in December 1997….
The Application of Information Technology
In this piece, Alastair Morrison reviews the pressures on solicitors and the courts arising from IT implementation. He analyses the position of smaller firms and looks at the prospects for XML and AI. This was originally submitted as a dissertation for the degree of LLM at the University of Strathclyde. It is rare for SCL to accept such material but this is a useful examination of various commentators’ views….
Reversal of UDRP Decisions in South Africa
Domain names continue to be a fertile ground for disputes. Although this article focuses on South African laws, some of Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn’s analysis on UDRP decisions on domain names is of much wider application….
Software Correction and the Year 2000 Problem
Zaccheaus Knox-Hooke is a barrister who specialises in IT law and related matters. He was for many years a programmer, analyst and projectmanager. He has a thorough knowledge of programming languages, structure andtechniques as well as systems development. He is currently Year 2000 lawyer fora major city financial institution. He can be contacted on zaccheaus@btinternet.com….
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E-Commerce
Comments on the Draft Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and on the Guidance Notes issued to explain them…
E-Commerce
The Society for Computers and Law Internet Interest Group Comments on the Draft Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and on the Guidance Notes issued to explain them [The draft Regulations are available at http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/docs/regulations.pdf,the guidance for business is available at http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/docs/guidance.pdf.] Introduction The Society for Computers and Law is the leading UK organisation for…
Data Retention Periods
Will Roebuck of the e.centre, the trading name of the Association for Standards and Practices in Electronic Trade, has prepared this list of retention periods. Can readers suggest more?…
Developing Successful Privacy Relationships
This is Robert Waixel’s report of the Privacy Laws & Business 15th Annual International Conference. Robert Waixel is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. He specialises in Computer Law in general and Data Protection Law and practice in particular….
M-legal
This tour of m-legal issues and technologies from Paul Lambert was also published in the Irish Law Society Gazette….