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Computers and the Law – New principles or the same principles in a different context?

April 30, 1998

Professor Ewan McKendrick gave a lecture to the SCL London Group on 22 September covering certain developments in contract law as they affect IT lawyers. This is the edited text of that lecture. SCL is grateful to him, both for granting permission for the text to be made available on the Web site and for the considerable work involved in converting that text into this form. SCL is also grateful to Wordwave for its transcription of the lecture….

Transferring data through model contracts: original clauses v alternative clauses

April 30, 1998

Eduardo Ustaran considers the required safeguards in contracts concerning transfer of data abroad…

Challenges to Database Information Retrieval – Do We Need a World Information Treaty and Tribunal?

April 30, 1998

Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….

IT and the London Civil Courts

April 30, 1998

This article is an edited version of Lord Justice Brooke’s lecture to the London Solicitors Litigation Association….

Specific software, correction of errors and source codes: tribulations of a Frenchman in an offshore software development paradise

April 30, 1998

This article from Marc-Antoine Ledieu delves into the confusion which can arise whenever, and wherever, software is developed….

EDMS Software: Winning Legal Business

April 30, 1998

Egami-Legal Litigation Support from DPA-Egami was a finalist for the 1998 SCL Award….

Microsoft: Victim or Villain?

April 30, 1998

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

April 30, 1998

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

April 30, 1998

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….