These may be the last set of predictions of 2012 – it is hard to predict that far in advance. But we have quality predictions from John Salmon, Pearse Ryan and Stephen Mason and it would be appropriate if SCL President Richard Susskind did indeed turn out to be our last contributor for 2012….
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William Richmond-Coggan sees the law keeping up with technology, underlines the warnings from the Lord McAlpine debacle and demolishes a few myths, including the myth of a luddite legal system…
Paul Lambert looks across the world at various cases involving Google and takes a look at its claim to defences and denial of liability…
The DPP has launched a public consultation on prosecutions involving social media communications and has published interim guidelines…
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that restriction of Internet access without a strict legal framework regulating the scope of the ban and affording the guarantee of judicial review to prevent possible abuses amounts to a violation of freedom of expression…
Just as we started with a set of predictions from one firm (DLA Piper), we are closing (probably) with a set from lawyers at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP. Even if you are fed up with predictions by now, it is worth making an effort for this set of perceptive forecasts that go outside our normal comfort zone….
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Use of social media for collaborating and sharing knowledge internally…
The Information Commissioner’s Office is consulting on its draft subject access code…
The European Commission has accepted legally binding commitments from Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Hachette, Holtzbrinck and Apple for sale of e-books…
The Court of Appeal has ruled in a case on the limits of disclosure and has given guidance on the approach where it is suggested that the duty to disclose arises under the Data Protection Act 1998 rather than the Civil Procedure Rules…
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