The rise of social media in our social conscience seems to continue unabated, and now not a day goes by without social media hitting the headlines in one way or another. Nick Branch looks at social media and employment issues….
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I am not sure that I am qualified to offer a view on Apple v Samsung but, inspired by the flood of uninformed recent comments on Assange, rape and extradition, I will anyway. How much does this verdict matter?…
Laurence Eastham looks at two books with contrasting aims….
These are pdfs of two of the articles that we could not quite fit into the magazine this time around through lack of space. These articles may be included in a later issue….
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Survey and More The recent SCL survey of members has thrown up some interesting views, and looking at the responses has been rewarding. There is still time to contribute your views – you can click through to the survey from the SCL web site home page. The more responses we get the more soundly based…
Chris Watson and Bailey Ingram highlight a largely ignored impact of the Divisional Court’s much publicised judgment in Chambers v DPP, namely the ruling on the term ‘public electronic communications network’….
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There has been an interesting recent NRS ruling on domain names and a site designed as forum for criticism of a business…
Twitter can be dangerous but you really cannot afford not to get on board…
The European Economic and Social Committee has published its Opinion on the proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation…
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Laura Scaife reviews some recent cases and suggests that there is a need for greater clarity as to where fundamental rights such as freedom of expression end and civil and/or criminal liability begins…
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