This issue ranges across the wide areas of interest of tech lawyers. Some articles cover recent developments and cases, others revisit the sort of contract problems that fill many days and we also look at the impact AI might have on the future practice of law. As regards the latter, we have two wonderful articles…
Blockchain: From Theory to Practice
Sue McLean takes a careful look at a series of common questions that arise, and are likely to arise with increasing frequency, where support is sought from practitioners on a blockchain project…
Issues in Global Sourcing Transactions
Mike Pierides, Sarah Atkinson and Dan Coen cover the basic, and crucial, issues that need to be considered when multi-jurisdictional outsourcing contracts are in contemplation…
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Data Protection: Subject Access Rights
A recent High Court judgment concerned the adequacy of a search following a subject access request and the limits of legal professional privilege in that context…
European Commission’s Internal Task Force on FinTech
Pearse Ryan and Robert Cain highlight the role of an EU task force and the issues it is likely to address…
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Trust me, I’m a computer
Manish Soni sheds some light on a vital area – trusted computing – which underpins our computing and which few IT lawyers understand…
Facebook, Illegality and the E-commerce Directive
In light of the judgment in CG v Facebook in the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal, Professor Lorna Woods asks: when is Facebook liable for illegal content under the E-commerce Directive?…
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Freedom of Movement
Laurence Eastham offers a cautionary tale about the monitoring of movements…
E-commerce: EC to Lower the Burdens of Cross-border Taxation
Heather Burns explains how proposed changes to the taxation of cross-border digital services represent an acknowledgement of the unintended consequences of digital legislation….
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