This is Robert Waixel’s report of the Privacy Laws & Business 15th Annual International Conference. Robert Waixel is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. He specialises in Computer Law in general and Data Protection Law and practice in particular.
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Read Rico Calleja of McDermott, Will & Emery on the Reed Case
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Comments on the Draft Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and on the Guidance Notes issued to explain them
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Comments on the Draft Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and on the Guidance Notes issued to explain them
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Unsolicited e-mail and overflowing inboxes are a new cyber hazard. This article on inboxes from Nigel Miller looks at the problem. It was first published in the Solicitors Journal.
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The main provisions of the E-Commerce Directive have now been implemented in the UK. Guy Veysey, a solicitor in the IT & E-commerce group at City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, discusses how they will be applied.
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From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. Only the quote is from Dryden, the article is from Jeremy Warner of the University of Strathclyde. He undertakes an in-depth study of the development of the principle.
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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.
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Andrea Pointing of ITNET looks at the use of mobile and remote technologies to create a seamless roaming strategy and describes the criteria for choosing a partner for such a venture.
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One of SCL's founding members, Alan Brakefield, was recently honoured with a dinner at the House of Lords and a presentation after 29 years as Treasurer of the Society. We reproduce below an excerpt from an article written by him in 1971. The article was published as Law and Technology: Jurimetrics and included an appendix on Computer Aid Projects in England which is reproduced here.
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