David Cran and Adam Cusworth look back on the long-running dispute in SAS v WPL and analyse the recent culminating judgment of Lewison LJ in the Court of Appeal…
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Further Criminal Prosecution under the DPA
A GP surgery manager has been prosecuted for illegally
accessing patients’ medical records…
Software Asset Management
Mark Flynn looks at how a law firm used software asset management as a tool in optimising licence use and protecting against the reputational damage that might flow from breach of licence terms…
Agile Contracting: The K03
Tom Holsøe and Mia Thulstrup Gedbjerg describe the genesis and characteristics of a new Danish standard contract for long-term IT projects based on an
agile method…
Internet Blocking and One-sided Argument
A spate of Internet blocking orders raises an issue about due process…
Predictions 2014: Batch 1
The Christmas music has been in the shops for weeks and a Christmas card has been received so it must be time for the SCL Predictions to begin. In strict alphabetical order, and in a complete reversal of the Christmas song, we begin with 12 lords (and ladies) a leaping: Kit Burden, Jan Durant, Beverley Flynn, Paul Gershlick, Andrew Haslam, Tom Hiskey, Stewart James, Daniel Pollick, Joe Reevy, John Salmon, Callum Sinclair and Peter Sommer…
The Perils of Revenge Porn
Alexander Cochrane looks at the new form of revenge involving the use of intimate images…
Advocate General Approves Use of Blocking Injunctions
An Advocate General’s Opinion has been published in a case seeking ECJ guidance on the use of injunctions to make ISPs block copyright infringing web sites…
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Cake or Death?
With the Upper Tribunal suggesting that seeking a discount on a data protection monetary penalty notice and still appealing was to have the cake and eat it too, Paul Motion and Laura Irvine ask how you can lose the right to appeal a £500,000 data fine….
Call for Increased Awareness on Cyber Risks
The UK’s top companies are not considering cyber risks in their decision-making, according to a new BIS survey…