This article is an edited version of Susan Singleton’s presentation to the London Group meeting on 30 April….
Letter to the Editor
There are a number of significant omissions in AmandaKearsley’s article The Internet,Paedophilia and the ISP (C&L Vol 12 issue 1; April/May 2001) so that theresult is somewhat unbalanced. 1. Charges involving paedophiliac material are nearly always prosecutedunder the Protection of Children Act 1978, not the Obscene Publications Act uponwhich Ms Kearsley concentrates. This applied in…
Data as a Form of Property in Commercial Contracts
In today’s e-commerce-led and IT-dependent business environment, possession and control of data is all important.
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Case Report: Thomas Kirk v Procurator Fiscal, Kirkcaldy
Case Report: Thomas Kirk v Procurator Fiscal, Kirkcaldy High Court of Justiciary; Opinion in the Court of Criminal Appeal…
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Legal Aspects of the Information Society
Brigitte Zammitt reviews Ian Lloyd’s book, Legal Aspects of the Information Society (Butterworths), and reviews the topics covered in the book….
Lawyering in the Internet Era: Who Needs Paper Anyway?
Joanna Boag-Thomson reports on the Scottish Society for Computers & Law’s joint meeting with the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Law, Computers and Technology, 15 May 2001. The speaker for the evening was John Tredennick, CEO of CaseShareSystems, based in Denver, Colorado….
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Legal e-commerce
Neil Cameron explains what e-commerce is and why you need to plan to take account of it….
SCL Response to Gowers Review
SCL’s response to the Call for Evidence made by the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property has been submitted this week. A small sub-committee of SCL members has compiled SCL’s response. The committee (Gillian Cordall of Lewis Silkin, Nick Cunningham of Wragge & Co and Laurie Kaye of Laurence Kaye Solicitors) have had to work under…
Entire Agreement Clauses Excluding Liability for Pre-contract Statements
Contracts for the supply of computer hardware or software frequently
incorporate entire agreement clauses. As a result of recent decisions in the
court, these clauses are undoubtedly a topic of current interest. This article
from David Blunt QC…
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Data Protection Update
There have been a number of interesting developments in data protection andinformation law generally since this column last appeared. Some are not strictlydata protection but are so closely linked that they deserve a mention. The Information Commissioner and the FOIA To start with a change of name: on 30 January, two months after the Freedomof…