Archive for July, 2008

New public sector security breaches come to light as 20,000 patients’ personal data is stolen from a London hospital

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

The personal information of approximately 20,000 patients - including brief medical notes, names, dates of birth and postcodes - has been put at risk following the theft of six laptops from St George’s...

Government responds to data security blunders with four reports and introduction of new data handling procedures but the Information Commissioner is hot on its tail

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

After a string of high profile data losses by Government bodies, the Government has published a final report on the Government’s data handling procedures in conjunction with three related independent...

Cotton Trader credit card data stolen by web hacker

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

A hacker has breached the security of Cotton Trader’s website and stolen credit card details of thousands of its customers, it has emerged. Reports had suggested that 38,000 customers’ credit card...

High Court was right to refuse to imply copyright assignment into software contract – Meridian International Services v Richardson, Court of Appeal

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

GSK commissioned Meridian to develop software for it. Mr Richardson and Mr Aldersley worked for Meridian. Before the software could be written, however, Meridian got into financial difficulties and was...

‘Screen scraping’ sparks threats of legal action by easyJet against websites

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

easyJet – the low-cost airline - has reportedly written to several websites advising them to cease ‘screen scraping’ information from easyJet’s website or face legal action. Screen scraping is...

Parties end up in High Court over yoghurt pot mess after relationship went sour and unclear contract documents were never clearly agreed – RTS Flexible Systems v Molkerei Alois Muller, High Court

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

In this case, the parties had agreed in principle for the supply of an automated packaging system for yoghurt pots – it was just unclear on what terms that had been agreed! RTS issued a detailed quotation,...

Expert’s decision binding unless fraud or actual bias – Owen Pell v Bindi, High Court

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

Parties to a contract often choose to settle technical or accounting issues by reference to an expert rather than a court. An expert’s jurisdiction and the extent of matters to be considered depend...

No compensation payable to commercial agents who commit a repudiatory breach of agency agreement – Nigel Fryer v Ian Firth Hardware, High Court

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

Nigel Fryer worked for IFH as a self-employed sales agent. Mr Fryer’s role was to promote interest in IFH’s products and identify the products which a customer may be interested in purchasing. IFH...

EU to take action against discriminatory pricing between users based in different EU countries

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

Meglena Kuneva, the EU Commissioner for consumer affairs, has vowed to take action against retailers who vary their prices to consumers in the EU depending on which country they are from. This war on...

European Commission demands disclosure of proprietary technologies and maximum licence fees in standards-setting process

1 July 2008 | Paul Gershlick

Software suppliers which are involved in developing technical standards should be required to disclose if they own any relevant intellectual property up-front in the process and fix maximum royalty rates...

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Archive for July, 2008

New public sector security breaches come to light as 20,000 patients’ personal data is stolen from a London hospital

Government responds to data security blunders with four reports and introduction of new data handling procedures but the Information Commissioner is hot on its tail

Cotton Trader credit card data stolen by web hacker

High Court was right to refuse to imply copyright assignment into software contract – Meridian International Services v Richardson, Court of Appeal

‘Screen scraping’ sparks threats of legal action by easyJet against websites

Parties end up in High Court over yoghurt pot mess after relationship went sour and unclear contract documents were never clearly agreed – RTS Flexible Systems v Molkerei Alois Muller, High Court

Expert’s decision binding unless fraud or actual bias – Owen Pell v Bindi, High Court

No compensation payable to commercial agents who commit a repudiatory breach of agency agreement – Nigel Fryer v Ian Firth Hardware, High Court

EU to take action against discriminatory pricing between users based in different EU countries

European Commission demands disclosure of proprietary technologies and maximum licence fees in standards-setting process

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