Shelley Hill of Robert Muckle welcomes the All Parliamentary Internet Group’s inquiry into the Act….
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Letter to the Editor
I write in response to the article written by Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn “Is Your E-mail Being Rejected?” (Computers and Law February/March 2004: Volume 14, Issue 6, pp 21 – 23), which was very interesting and stimulating, and has added to the debate surrounding the issues relating to e-mail. With a view to extending the debate,…
Flights and Rights: Anonymisation, Data-Matching and Privacy
As the EU and US debate sharing of airline passenger information, Stewart Baker, Maury Shenk, Kees Kuilwijk, Winnie Chang and Daniel Mah of Steptoe & Johnson examine the special circumstances and the extent to which sophisticated anonymisation techniques can resolve some of the most difficult conflicts between privacy and security….
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Electronic Signatures in Law
Eduardo Ustaran reviews Electronic Signatures in Law by Stephen Mason, published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths. £95. ISBN 0406 97006 8….
Documents, Disclosure and Direction
Sandra Potter talked to Laurence Eastham about her initiative in creating and consulting on a draft Practice Direction to cover the use of IT in the litigation of civil matters….
Is Your E-mail Being Rejected?
South African attorney Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn assesses potential liability for the e-mail that gets filtered out by spam filtering software….
SCL 30th Anniversary Lecture: Richard Christou on “Thirty Years of Law in the IT industry”
This event mixed celebration with illumination. A full transcript of the lecture is now available as well as Richard Harrison’s sparkling report of the event….
Editorial
Legal Knowledge Management Group Plans for the creation of this new Interest Group are now well advanced. It is to be formed in March and the prime movers behind its creation are looking for interested SCL members to contact Caroline Gould to register their interest. Both ordinary members and those with a real commitment to…
IT Disputes Interest Group
The Society for Computers and Law has announced the launch of the IT Disputes Interest Group, a forum for lawyers, industry experts, suppliers and users involved in all forms of disputes in the IT industry….
Mediation of IT Disputes: Avoiding the Pitfalls
Have you got a war story from an attempt to negotiate peace? Clive Freeman is looking for input from SCL members to enrich the second meeting of the IT Disputes Group….
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