SCL Award Presentation
Richard Harrison of Laytons, one of this year’s judges, reviews the event.
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Richard Harrison of Laytons, one of this year’s judges, reviews the event.
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Fiona Ghosh explains how the UK’s web of e-commerce regulations continues to grow.
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Computer forensics is a discipline that is increasingly called upon to resolve a whole range of legal issues both within the workplace and outside of it. But, for most employers, their chances of carrying out a successful forensic investigation are being severely hampered by a failure to recognise the importance of defining and implementing the right kind of policy. In this article, Clifford May, principal consultant at security specialist Integralis, examines how appropriate policies can be designed and provides practical advice on the methodology of forensic investigation.
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Craig Earnshaw, head of the Forensic Computing Services group of Lee & Allen Consulting Limited, discusses the implications of an addition to the practice direction for the execution of Search and Seize Orders.
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In Intel Corporation v VIA Technologies (20 December 2002) [2002] EWCA Civ 1905, the Court of Appeal handed down a decision dealing substantively with the tension between intellectual property rights and competition law. The case considers the inherent rights of a patent holder, and in what circumstances those rights may be qualified or fettered by competition law. Pat Treacy of Bristows reflects on the judgment.
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We asked a number of legal IT experts to offer their predictions for 2003.
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The expected explosion in e-commerce requires a solution to the problems that arise with payments, and the ever-present security threat. Christopher Scroggs and Rebecca Nugent of Laytons examine the issues.
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The data protection year has been as busy as ever. In this swift round-up, Rosemary Jay of Masons describes the principal developments.
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After 29 years as Treasurer of the Society for Computers & Law, Alan Brakefield is retiring from that post. A dinner was held in his honour at the House of Lords on Tuesday 17 December.
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A report on the meeting of 19 November at the QEII Conference Centre by Eduardo Ustaran, Chairman of the SCL Internet Interest Group and solicitor at Berwin Leighton Paisner, London.
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