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Our team practices non-contentious and contentious information technology (IT) law and has an extensive practice advising on all types of commercial relationship (including sale and purchase of goods and services relationships, distribution, franchise and agency). A specialist part of this practice relates to information technology and our team includes lawyers with extensive in-house experience in the IT sector. This means we are well-placed to provide practical, cutting-edge advice to our clients on anything from software licensing, distribution and development to managed services, outsourcing, online and offline commerce and data protection.

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Paul Gershlick
01923 208816
paul.gershlick@mablaw.com

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Unite ordered to disclose details of its users for a second time after failing to do it properly first time round – Manish Patel v Unite, High Court

8 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

During the British Airways cabin crew strike, Mr Patel had acted as a volunteer cabin crew member. Allegedly as a result of his actions, he was the subject of defamatory allegations posted on a forum on...

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Barrister struck off by Bar Standards Board owned Newzbin

7 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Newzbin2, an illegal file-sharing and download website that BT was ordered to block access to in October 2011, has been in the news regularly in the last year or so. Now it has been revealed that the barrister...

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“32″ and “red” marks appeal rejected by Court of Appeal – WHG (International) Ltd v 32 Red Plc, Court of Appeal

3 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

In February 2011, the High Court ruled that two European Community Trade Marks for the “32RED” word and a figurative trade mark comprising “32” and “red” had been infringed by “32Vegas”...

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New data protection proposals announced for the EU

1 February 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has launched the European Commission’s proposals for the reform of the data protection regime in the EU, with the aim of increasing a person’s...

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Deleted email on back-up system “held” and should be disclosed under Environmental Information Regulations – Keiller v Information Commissioner, Information Tribunal

1 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

A request was made to the University of East Anglia for the release of a copy of an email. The email attached information that was being used to support a claim that academics from the University had manipulated...

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Internet economy to double from 2010 to 2016

30 January 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The Internet economy across the G20 countries is set to rise from US$2.3 trillion in 2010 to US$ trillion in 2016. A big driver will be the growth from the emerging economies and growth of mobile devices...

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Government announces action against payment card surcharges

27 January 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Following the Office of Fair Trading’s response to a super-complaint by the consumer watchdog “Which?” in relation to payment surcharges in the transport industry, HM Treasury and the Department...

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European Commission to consult over website take-down procedures

19 January 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The European Commission is going to consult this year over take-down procedures for websites. Under the Electronic Commerce Directive, websites have no liability for illegal content that they host as long...

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Sussex hospital facing £375,000 fine after hard drives with thousands of patient data ended up on eBay

13 January 2012 | Paul Gershlick

Following on from the Information Commissioner Office targeting the health sector for enforcement action for breaches of the Data Protection Act, the ICO has written to Brighton General Hospital proposing...

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Protecting “Look and Feel” in Apps

11 January 2012 | Ted Mercer

Two of the problems that occur most frequently in assisting people who design and implement applications for phones and tablets relate to difficulties in protecting the “look and feel”. The look...

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