Publishing & social media

Strategies to Manage Legal Risks & Designing an Effective Risk Management Framework

March 1, 2002

If there is one constant that all businesses face throughout their life cycle, it would be managing legal risk exposures. Given the unique nature of information technology (IT) businesses, legal risk exposures can be particularly accentuated. The need to evolve a sound and proactive legal risk management framework as part of the enterprise’s legal strategy is becoming an imperative. A sound legal risk management framework should provide a seamless integration of legal contents or guidance with an IT-driven workflow process. Here expert systems can play an important role in the design of such legal risk management systems. Zaid Hamzah, CEO, Lexfutura (Global) and Managing Director, I-Knowledge Technologies, Singapore, provides a road map….

To Disclose or Not to Disclose: That is the Question

August 31, 2001

The recent case of Totalise v Motley Fool, decided on 19 February 2001, dealt with disclosure in the context of a Web site….

Information Technology and Human Rights: An International Perspective

August 31, 2001

The following article is developed from a lecture given by W.S. Gale QC to the Scottish Society for Computers & Law at the joint meeting with the Faculty of Advocates IT Group in Edinburgh….

Internet Privacy: Inroads into Assumptions

June 30, 2001

In February the case of Totalise Plc v Motley Fool Limited went almost without mention. Joanne Ashley describes why she finds this surprising and briefly considers the implications of this case….

Letter to the Editor

June 30, 2001

There are a number of significant omissions in AmandaKearsley’s article The Internet,Paedophilia and the ISP (C&L Vol 12 issue 1; April/May 2001) so that theresult is somewhat unbalanced. 1. Charges involving paedophiliac material are nearly always prosecutedunder the Protection of Children Act 1978, not the Obscene Publications Act uponwhich Ms Kearsley concentrates. This applied in…

Editorial

April 30, 2001

Modernising the Civil Courts In a general welcome for the proposals and new funding, the SCL responsemakes it clear that there is a great deal still to be done and that it is vitalthat the right approach is taken now. It states, for example, that ‘it isessential that modernisation (including the physical and systems analysisinfrastructures)…

The Internet, Paedophilia and the ISP

April 30, 2001

The ideology of the Internet as a communications channel offering all things
to all men as the ultimate in free speech has recently come under close
scrutiny. Since the public outrage against the lenient sentences imposed on
seven men for tradi…

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000

August 31, 2000

Rico Calleja analyses the new Act and points out some of its defects and dangers….

Jurisdiction on the Internet – not such a barrel of laughs for Euromarket!

August 31, 2000

Dawn Osborne investigates the recent case of Euromarket Designs Inc v Peters in the UKHigh Court before Jacob J, which reinforces the view that jurisdiction on the Internet can be a difficult issue for plaintiffs….

South Western Group: Professional Use of the Internet and Basic Legal Issues

August 31, 2000

Jeremy Barker reports on the South Western Group meeting which took place on 13 July….