The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport is holding a public consultation as part of a review of the exemptions from paying charges to the Information Commissioner’s Office…
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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport is holding a public consultation as part of a review of the exemptions from paying charges to the Information Commissioner’s Office…
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With the recent Court of Appeal decision in Computer Associates v The Software Incubator as a catalyst, Ken Moon embarks on a detailed analysis of the ‘software as goods’ debate and suggests a modern solution to problems arising from outdated classifications…
Read More… from Is Software Goods, or even Property? A Recommendation for Sui Generis Categories
Laurence Eastham reviews this book from Steven Baker, Lawrence Akka QC and Rachel Glass…
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Karyn Harty asks an interesting question and suggests an approach that will lead to a sensible answer…
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Lorna Skinner analyses the Court of Appeal decision in TLU v Home Office, which concerned misuse of private information and data protection and provided a further explanation of Durant…
Read More… from Data Protection Damages: Court of Appeal Judgment in TLU v Home Office
A new case highlights the difficulties where equipment and data is seized, the data is copied and the equipment returned. How can unused data be returned and how much effort should be applied to identifying the material to be returned?…
Gerald Brent reports on the SCL Junior Lawyers’ Group event hosted by Baker McKenzie on 22 May 2018…
Richard Osborne of 4 Pump Court reflects on a contract dispute in which the Supreme Court made it clear that anti-oral variation clauses will be enforced….
The ECtHR has considered a challenge to the regime for bulk interception of communications in Sweden and decided that it meets ECHR standards…
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These are brief reports of a number of cases dealt with on the SCL site over the last two months. In many cases, more detailed reports are available online, where links to full judgments are also available….