Questions arising from the December 2010 / January 2011 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL5 – 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Predictions 2011: IT Law & IT Trends
Each year we ask experts in a wide variety of fields for their views on the likely developments in the year ahead. This is a selection of the predictions published on the SCL web site that relate to IT law or which focus on the trends in IT which are likely to affect IT lawyers…
Predictions 2011: Technology & Strategies for Lawyers – E-disclosure, E-evidence & Forensics
Each year we ask experts in a wide variety of fields for their views on the likely developments in the year ahead. This is a selection of the predictions published on the SCL web site that relate to technological developments that affect legal practice and the forecast changes for e-disclosure, electronic evidence and forensics…
Editorial
Future Content My heading suggests that I am about to outline our programme of articles and features for 2011. But, since our aim is always to respond with great agility to the events shaping the legal IT landscape, I cannot say that I know much about what is to come past February. My heading is…
Back to Basics: Exclusion and Limitation of Liability
In the second in our Back to Basics series, Michael Taylor and Matthew Lavy consider the drafting and effects of two types of clause that are almost inevitable features of IT contracts: the exclusion clause and the limitation of liability clause….
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ECJ Ruling on Computer Program Protection
The ECJ has ruled on a reference from a court in the Czech Republic on the question of whether the notion of ‘expression in any form of a computer program’ includes a program’s graphic user interface and on a related issue on the broadcasting of the image of an interface and copyright….
Back to Basics: Dispute Resolution by Expert Determination
Seen with increasing frequency in IT contract disputes, but still too often left in the wings, expert determination has the potential to play a major role in the resolution of IT-related disputes. David Blunt QC and Richard Osborne bring it into the full glare of the spotlight….
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#contempt
Beware the ill-considered tweet. Judges can read….
Predictions – Fourth Course
Here is the fourth course in the predictions banquet. There are predictions from Chris Dale, Monica Horten and Mark Turner. Since I dare not allocate anyone to the cheese course, let’s call this coffee and mints or, given the season and the substantial fare that is still on offer, coffee and mince pies….
Copyright: Licence Limitations
The Court of Appeal has upheld a finding of copyright infringement for use of photographs on a web site where the web site owner had a limited licence. Susan Barty, Tom Scourfield and Tom Reid report on the case and highlight the dangers inherent in old licences….