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Aerotel/Macrossan – What Have We Learnt about the Patentability of Software?

December 16, 2006

Jason Rix analyses the importance of, and reports on the judgment in, the Aerotel/Macrossan case….

Interview with Bill Jones, SCL’s Chair

December 14, 2006

After a period acting as SCL’s Joint Chair with Richard Stephens, Bill Jones has now accepted a period of office as SCL’s sole Chair. Laurence Eastham interviewed him for the magazine….

SCL AGM: Changes in SCL Trustees and Chair

December 14, 2006

SCL AGM: Changes in SCL Trustees and Chair…

Specific Performance of IT Contracts

December 13, 2006

In this article, Duncan McCall and Alex Potts consider the circumstances in which the courts might be willing to grant the remedy of specific performance in an IT contracts dispute. They also consider the relationship between a limitation of liability clause and the remedy of specific performance….

Use of Service Catalogues in IT Outsourcing Contracts

December 13, 2006

Service catalogues are, as Andrew Withers explains, increasingly being viewed as an integral part of major outsourcing contracts. But they can be all too easily neglected and misunderstood….

Technology in the Courtroom

December 13, 2006

Vicky Harris reviews some of the technology that is most likely to be useful to barristers and other litigators….

Exit – Controlling the Size of the Hole

December 12, 2006

Steve Holmes points out that, at some stage in an outsourcing relationship, the customer is likely to be eyeing the door marked Exit. This article covers the key issues that the contract needs to cover if the exit is to be executed without undue stress….