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The Bărbulescu case and employee monitoring: all the sordid details | Technology Law Alliance
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A recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights attracted an unusual amount of media attention. The decision in Bărbulescu v Romania [2016] in January concerned the tension between an employer’s right to monitor the activities of staff in the workplace, and an employee’s right to privacy. Many of the press reports that followed …

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The Digital Content Directive: draft in haste and repent at leisure | TLT
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The Digital Content Directive (the Directive) being pushed through by the Dutch EU presidency could have a significant impact on UK businesses supplying digital content. The Directive is part of the Digital Single Market Initiative. There are also draft directives on copyright law, geo-blocking and the online sale of goods. But the Digital Content Directive …

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Passion plays

Working long hours, expected to be available at all hours, and labelled a cost-centre. Such are the pressures of life in-house. The days of commerce and industry as a softer option for lawyers than the toil of the law firm associate track are rapidly drawing to a close.

Straight to the source

Twenty years ago the idea of any person instructing the Bar other than a private practice solicitor was frowned upon. Although as qualified solicitors in-house counsel always had the right to instruct barristers, convention dictated private practice lawyers acted as gatekeepers of the Bar for companies seeking advice on litigation. But, as the rules have …

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2016 and all that

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‘One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” was his response. “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”’ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The above passage from …

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Myths and Millennials

Just what is it that you want to do? We wanna be free. We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. Loaded, Primal Scream It was a very different legal market in 2007 when Simon Harper and a group of colleagues at Berwin Leighton Paisner geared up for the launch of Lawyers On …

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Brave new worlds

Schadenfreude doesn’t feature much between in-house legal departments, so many general counsel would have winced when TalkTalk chief executive Baroness Harding admitted last year that she didn’t know all the technical details of the cyber breach that could ultimately cost the company £60m and contribute to the loss of 101,000 customers.

Goodbye nine to five

In June 2014 the government extended flexible working rights to more than 20 million employees across the UK in a policy shift that recognised the traditional nine-to-five routine no longer dominates British workplaces. But if such attitudes are relatively new to much of the economy, lawyers in in-house roles – traditionally a more progressive environment …

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Electricity market reform: an update on contracts for difference | Burges Salmon
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The Energy Bill, legislating for the government’s electricity market reform (EMR), finally became the Energy Act in December 2013. The government initially announced its proposals back in December 2010. This legislation, three years in the making, is central to the government’s energy policy and its stated aims of keeping the lights on, keeping energy bills …

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