Questions arising from the Feb/March 2016 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC40 – CPD: 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Editorial
GDPR Focus Like Hannibal Smith in the A-Team, I love it when a plan comes together. But I love it even more when my half-baked idea for a vehicle gets grasped by the SCL membership and turned into something that looks like a beautifully engineered limousine. And that’s what happened with this issue. The GDPR…
New SCL Chair’s Vision for the Future
This is an exciting time for technology and the legal frameworks that touch and are touched by technology. This Society exists to enable us all to share and learn from each other in our chosen area. We are a collective of some of the brightest and most innovative minds, undertaking ground-breaking work. If we can…
The Blockchain Conundrum: Call for Contributions
Laurence Eastham is looking for articles about legal aspects of blockchain and its applications…
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Liability for Data Security Breaches: Follow up and US Twist
Paul Golding expands upon an earlier piece on data security risk allocation and looks at a recent case in the USA that underlines the importance of the issue…
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Benchmark Regulation: Impact on Outsourcing of Benchmarks
Hinal Patel and Sophie Sheldon highlight the importance of a new draft EU regulation…
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Matter over Mind? The Impact of Recent Case Law on IT Contracts
Alex Shattock and Gideon Shirazi consider recent case law on contractual interpretation and what it might mean for IT contracts by reference to a common scenario in IT outsourcing…
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Shifting the Burden of Consent under the GDPR
In the latest in our series of articles on the GDPR, Felicity Turton reflects on the change in the wording of the consent requirement and speculates on its impact…
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Express Obligations of Good Faith In IT/Outsourcing Agreements
Michael Butterworth and Rachel Kane review a wide range of cases where the courts have been asked to consider the impact of an obligation to exercise ‘good faith’ and draw useful lessons from them…
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Blockchains not Bitcoin: Distributed Ledger Technology
Andres Guadamuz and Chris Marsden explain the origins of blockchain, highlight some of its applications and look to its future…
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