Jonathan Westwell and Stuart Wilks discuss the role that the law can have in controlling time and preventing or managing delay. They also seek to promote the use of critical path methodology as a project management tool….
Contracting for Disaster
Kit Burden highlights the importance of contracts for disaster recovery and business continuity services and suggests some terms which require special attention….
Signing Hundreds of Contracts Online Made Easy.
Simon Deane-Johns and Tim Parlett explain how they used technology to leap over a major operational and regulatory hurdle….
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Construction of Contracts
Anna Cook examines judicial views on the weight to be attached to extrinsic evidence when interpreting contracts….
Denial of Service Attacks – Realism Prevails
Mark Lewis gives an account of the facts and judgment in DPP v Lennon [2006] EWHC 1201 (Admin) and considers the implications of the Divisional Court’s principal ruling…
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Staking out a Wider Domain
Mike Gardner comments on Tesco v Elogicom, which involved a battle over domain names incorporating the word “Tesco”….
Technology Based Outsourcing: The Long and Short of it All
Pearse Ryan discusses issues relating to deal flexibility over the medium to long term, with reference to technology based outsourcing….
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Editorial
The public sector is under an enormous amount of pressure to be seen to be doing something about IT. That pressure has been applied for many years, by Government decrees and some wildly optimistic targets for e-government. But it also arises from real world expectations and the need to save money, which IT-related increases in…
Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World
Laurence Eastham reviews a new book from Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu. OUP. 226 pp. £16.99 hardback. ISBN 0 – 19 – 515266-2….
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International Libel and Privacy Handbook
Danilo Leonardi reviews “International Libel & Privacy Handbook: A Global Reference for Journalists, Publishers, Webmasters, and Lawyers” edited by Charles J. Glasser Jr., Bloomberg Press: New York, 2006: 384 pp, £55 (distributed in the UK by Kogan Page)…