With HM Land Registry’s consultation now underway, no one denies that the property industry is facing a period of unprecedented change. Catherine Williams, newly appointed Technical Manager of PISCES, explains how the property-focused electronic data exchange standard is ideally placed to lead the way.
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Rosemary Mulley provides an introduction to the main issues surrounding e-government – modernisation and electronic delivery of all public services by 2005. She makes it clear that e-Government is about transformation, not computers and hints at the special legal issues which may arise.
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Here’s James Tuke’s view on the things you should look at when choosing a firm to help you set up or improve your Web site.
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Do you suffer from more spam than John Cleese at a Monty Python Convention? W K Hon has found a product which might help.
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Richard Harrison rolls around, fails to grasp XML and lusts after Jordana.
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Richard Brockbank responds to Richard Harrison's article in the Feb/March issue (vol12, issue 6), The E-mail of the Species. He maintains an understandably greater faith in litigation support systems.
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On 20 May 2002, Mr Justice Pumfrey gave judgment in the case of (1) Reed Executive Plc (2) Reed Solutions Plc v (1) Reed Business Information Limited (2) Reed Elsevier (UK) Limited (3) totaljobs.com Limited. The case explored for the first time in any detail the extent to which the use of various optimisation techniques for Web sites could give rise to new forms of trade mark infringement and passing off. Ian Jeffery of Lewis Silkin reports on the case and offers his comments.
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Professor Michael Hirst of De Montfort University looks at a recent case and questions the Court of Appeals's approach. Professor Hirst is a contributing author to Blackstone's Criminal Practice and a widely published author on evidence and criminal law issues.
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Nigel Miller of Fox Williams, is one of the new Joint Chairmen of SCL. Laurence Eastham interviewed him to find out something more about him and to pursue some of the points raised in the recent letter to members.
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Laurence Eastham comments on the implications for IT strategy arising from the Land Registry’s proposals on e-conveyancing and wonders if BT and broadband deserve sympathy.
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