Insights: Digital health

Where parties to technology projects have disputes finding a timely and cost effective resolution process, one that provides access to justice whilst allowing relations and cash-flow to be maintained, has long been the holy grail of dispute lawyers. Through its adjudication scheme, launched in October 2019, the Society of Computers & Law (SCL) hopes to encourage parties to adopt a process, which if not the holy grail is advocated as being a major step in the right direction.

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LAW firm Ward Hadaway's Litigation team has won a national legal award for the quality of its work in resolving disputes.

Cartier Int. AG and Others v BSkyB and Others 17 October 2014

In June, the Technology & Construction Court in Frontier Systems Ltd (t/a Voiceflex) v Frip Finishing Ltd 2014 looked at the thorny question of who should bear the costs of fraudulently inflated internet call traffic.

Regrettably, yet another Public Sector IT implementation has ended in a costly failure being shouldered by the tax payer.

We all know that a life well led will lead to plenty of mistakes and interesting war stories. In the digital world we now live in where people, particularly the younger generation, set out what they are doing online, so increasing amounts of data is held by search engines and other online providers.