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Audit rights under IT contracts

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 23 2013

Audit rights are commonly included in IT contracts in order to allow one party to access information held by the other party in relation to the

Disclosure of social work records in litigation

  • Thirty Nine Essex Street
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 16 2013

Sensitive social work records may be sought during litigation, either as a subject access request under the Data Protection Act 1998, or simply by way

Seller beware liability for pre-contract promises

  • Pitmans LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 11 2013

Apart from establishing that Lulu the dog could get a degree, one of the key lessons to be learned from the case of BSkyB -v- EDS was the liability

Confidentiality and your employees: who holds the trump card?

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 5 2013

The rights and restrictions relating to the use of information tend to pass us by in day-to-day life. We generally do not dwell on whether repeating

Damages for distress under the DPA

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 3 2013

In this unreported case, the Court of Appeal upheld the appellant’s claim for damages against a finance company. Mr Halliday had made a claim for

UK court rules Fourth Data Protection Principle does not require absolute accuracy

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 2 2013

The UK Court of Appeal overturned a previous decision relating to the breach of the Fourth Data Protection Principle, which requires that personal

Is there copyright in a computer language?

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 19 2013

SAS Institute certainly hoped so, as it wanted to prevent World Programming from selling a product called WPS, which emulated much of the

UK Court rules that computer program functionality is not protected by copyright

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 13 2013

On 25 January, Mr Justice Arnold handed down his decision in SAS Institute Inc. v World Programming Limited 2013 EWHC 69 (Ch), following the Court

Credit reference agencies’ duties

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 12 2013

The Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court decision in this case, in which the judge had found Equifax plc (a credit reference agency) in

Disclosure of cautions on CRB checks

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 12 2013

29 January 2013 R (on the application of T, JB and AW) (Appellant) v (1) Chief Constable of Greater Manchester; (2) Secretary of State for the Home