ICT

Index

Information and communications technology covers:

• software protection

• computer supply contracts

• data protection, and

• telecommunications regulation.

It overlaps with internet and e-commerce and includes the law relating to brands, creative works, design and technology within its ambit.

Jane Lambert has specialized in ICT law since 1983. She is one of the pioneers in the subject. She had to teach herself this area of the law when she was legal advisor to VISA International for Europe, the Middle East and Africa simply because there was hardly anybody else doing it at the English bar or the big London Law firms. She drafts and reviews computer supply contracts, source code, website, private key and other escrow agreements, website access terms and conditions and all sorts of other documents relating to computers. She advises and appears before the Intellectual Property Lists and on software protection and Technology and Construction Court on computer supply contracts, the UK Intellectual Property Office on software related patent issues, arbitrators, mediations and other domain name dispute resolution panels including Nominet and the UDRP.

She was the contributor to Atkin's Court Forms and the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents on Computer Law, Computer Contracts, Data Protection and has contributed many articles on the topic over the last 20 years. She was founding Chair of the Northern Branch and a Council Member of the Society for Computers and Law and has presented papers on computer law to the International Bar Association, International Chamber of Commerce, Licensing Executives Society, British Computer Society, National Computing Centre and many other professional associations. She remains a member of the British Computer Society and attends meetings of the London, Manchester and West Yorkshire branches and the Law Specialist Group.

Jane has also appeared in some important cases on computer law including Microsoft Corporation v Ling and Others [2006] EWHC 1619   Comyn Ching v Radius Plc 17 March 1997 IBCOS Computers Ltd. v Barclays Mercantile Highland Finance Ltd. [1994] FSR 275, Total Information Processing Systems Ltd. v Daman Ltd. [1992] FSR 171. Jane settled one of the first domain name cases before the UDPR and now sits as a UDRP panellist for the WIPO.

Lois Cole-Wilson has a special interest in internet defamation and privacy law.

Richard Aird provides advice and representation on computer and communications law cases in Scotland.