You are here: silicon.com > Tags

27 stories on

eversheds

Sort by: Date | Relevance


silicon.com victory in Full Disclosure data campaign

News Technology lawyer for Eversheds Jonathan Armstrong said: "The possibility of criminal prosecution is something that a lot of multinationals will sit up and listen to. silicon.com has won a significant victory in its Full Disclosure campaign to make...

Tags: data loss, richard thomas, ico, campaign

[31 Jan 2008]

Call for tougher online retail age checks

News Eversheds partner Jonathan Armstrong welcomed the move in principle, but was unsure from Moran's comments how the law, if it came into being, would be enforced. An MP is calling for a change in the law to force online retailers to introduce tougher...

Tags: brc, eversheds, law, retail

[21 Jan 2008]

Commons' committee calls for reckless-data-loss laws

News Jonathan Armstrong, technology lawyer with Eversheds, said the government should take care not to rush through laws as it had done with the Dangerous Dogs Act. MPs have called for the reckless loss of computer data and personal information to be...

Tags: data loss, government, security, law

[03 Jan 2008]

E-tailers beware: OFT web sweep is imminent

Comment Paula Barrett is head of the data protection group at international law firm Eversheds. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the Local Authority Trading Standards Services are planning a sweep of the UK's top 600 retail websites to ensure they meet...

Tags: e-tail, regulation, oft, regulations

[14 Dec 2007]

Security experts slam HMRC over data loss

News Jonathon Armstrong, principal partner at law firm Eversheds drew parallels with a similar security breaches in the US last year, when 26 million armed forces veterans' personal data was lost and when retailer TJX lost more than 90 million...

Tags: hmrc, security, disclosure, hands

[22 Nov 2007]

Law firm inks £27m IT deal

News International law firm Eversheds has signed a £27m managed services deal which will see it hand over the management of its UK service desk and desk-side support along with the hosting of its data centres to Computacenter Services.

Tags: outsourcing, computacenter, helpdesk, virtualisation

[05 Jun 2007]

New Email System Aids Efficiency at Law Firm

whitepaper Eversheds LLP is one of the largest full service international law firms in the world with more than 4,000 people and over 2,100 legal advisers. Eversheds' existing email system was based on a legacy application, which could no longer meet the...

Tags: disaster recovery, upgrade, firms, evolution

[10 Aug 2006]

Eversheds Increases Reprographics Volume 300%

whitepaper Eversheds has grown in recent years to become the third largest law firm in the world and second largest in Europe. PBMS first began providing Reprographic Services to Eversheds in 1998 for the Leeds office.

Tags: offices, europe, range, communities

[10 Jun 2005]

South Oxfordshire District Council - A Strategic Approach to Corporate Procurement in a District Council

whitepaper In October 2002, Eversheds were invited to undertake some procurement awareness training. South Oxfordshire District Council is a predominantly rural authority covering an area of approximately 253 square miles with a population circa 130,000.

Tags: procurement and sourcing, procurement, authority, contract

[28 Apr 2005]

Blair hires controversial US election cyberactivist

Blair hires controversial US election cyberactivist

News Law firm Eversheds warned of the legal dangers of cybersquatting and said the political parties also risk alienating voters if they mislead them using these kinds of tactics. Cassie Beasley, intellectual property expert at Eversheds, said: "Anyone...

Tags: cybersquatting, election

[15 Apr 2005]

Eversheds Places the Law in Microsoft's Hands

whitepaper Eversheds is one of the largest law firms in the world, employing 4,500 staff in offices throughout Europe. Eversheds is one of the largest law firms in the world, employing 4,500 staff in offices throughout Europe.

Tags: windows xp

[24 Feb 2004]

5 years ago... Over a third of UK websites branded illegal

News 27.10.98: More than a third of UK companies are breaking the law with their corporate websites, according to law firm Eversheds. Andy Lucas, a solicitor at Eversheds, agreed that the offences might seem trivial, but he warned that complacency over...

Tags: business, compliance, internet

[27 Oct 2003]

Chip firm's 'illegal' $7bn subsidy under scrutiny

Chip firm's 'illegal' $7bn subsidy under scrutiny

News Andre Bywater, EU lawyer at law firm Eversheds, said: "This is serious stuff. Hynix Semiconductor is being investigated by the European Union for allegedly receiving government subsidies to reduce the price of chips sent to Europe.

[24 Jul 2002]

Lone e-tailer starts crusade against Yahoo! and Hotmail

Lone e-tailer starts crusade against Yahoo! and Hotmail

News However, this statement is heavily disputed by Kate Fox, technology legal specialist at Eversheds law firm. A UK e-tailer has resorted to naming and shaming Hotmail and Yahoo! on his website after the companies failed to de-activate email accounts...

[12 Jul 2002]

Illegal links should worry British websites

Illegal links should worry British websites

News Kate Fox, a lawyer at legal firm Eversheds, explained that under the European Copyright Directive, copyright law is the same in every member state. A Danish judge has banned a news site from linking to the web pages of certain newspapers.

[09 Jul 2002]

City firms wide open to drive-by hacks

City firms wide open to drive-by hacks

News Jonathan Armstrong, senior associate at law firm Eversheds, claimed that IT directors have no excuse for not thoroughly securing a wireless network based on the 802.11b standard because the mass of information available means no one can plead...

[01 May 2002]

UK shamed as government misses ecommerce deadline

UK shamed as government misses ecommerce deadline

News Jonathan Armstrong, senior partner at law firm Eversheds, said: "In the past the EU has taken action against member states for failing to comply with Directive deadlines. The UK government will definitely miss the deadline set by the European Union...

[08 Jan 2002]

ISPs to duck legal costs in message board libel cases

ISPs to duck legal costs in message board libel cases

News Jonathan Armstrong, senior associate at law firm Eversheds, said: "ISPs are more likely to disclose user information if they get some recompense for costs that previously they'd had to foot themselves.

[07 Jan 2002]

Cyber-cops mull new strategy to bag web villains

Cyber-cops mull new strategy to bag web villains

News Jonathan Armstrong, senior associate at law firm Eversheds, said such a scheme could be beneficial. The police are considering a radical new scheme to allow firms who blow the whistle on cybercrime to get guaranteed anonymity.

[05 Dec 2001]

Brussels starts meting out spam laws

Brussels starts meting out spam laws

News James Fry, a lawyer with Eversheds, said: "This decision to allow member states to opt in or out is a backwards step. The European Parliament has decided that member states can opt whether to allow spamming over electronic devices as a default in...

[13 Nov 2001]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: