Go away for a few days and when you come back it often takes an inordinate amount of time to catch up with developments. It is always the same and this time is no different. I left you with thoughts on Va Va Voom (Voom HD Holdings LLC v EchoStar Satellite LLC Index M 1748… Read More »
Several weeks ago and just before the EU published its proposals to replace the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46, I wrote, admittedly somewhat tongue in cheek, about what might be contained in the new draft. [The right to be forgotten, Smart e-Discovery blog, 24th January, 2012]. Since then, the EU has produced its proposals to a… Read More »
Hot on the heels of Voom comes what is believed to be the first federal case to adopt the use of predictive coding. The case is Monique Da Silva Moore, et al v Publicis Groupe and MSL Group and the decision was yesterday, 13th Feb 2012. It is not altogether surprising that the judge was His… Read More »
It is easy to overlook the fact that London is a very green city. It is a fact! Fly over it and you will see what I mean. Consider Highbury Fields to Victoria Park, from Greenwich to Crystal Palace and Richmond taking in Hyde Park and St James’s Park; there are few cities with more… Read More »
You will have to be at least 25 years old, I suspect, to remember a remarkably successful TV advertising campaign in the Nineties to promote the Renault Clio. Between 1991 and 1998, the series featured a father and daughter, Papa and Nicole, (with two other walk on parts) and apparently recreated the exchanges between Nicole… Read More »
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all – Friedrich Nietzsche Like the rumble of thunder which precedes the storm or the escape of sulphurous gas which heralds a volcanic eruption, it is clear that the EU is up to something. That something promises to be momentous. Forget the recession/depression, forget the riots… Read More »
No Scotsman I, but I am familiar with the traditions of a Burns Nicht supper and indeed have in the past fallen foul of them. My wife delights in the story of my trying in vain to insert the key to our then London house and complaining bitterly that it did not fit, only to… Read More »
“Are you on LinkedIn?” asked my companion. I confessed that I was. “Facebook?” Well, not exactly, I replied. “Why not?” my interrogator continued. By this stage I was beginning to wish I had not started the conversation, but I had been keen to establish whether this particular litigation lawyer was into social media because our… Read More »
When I looked to my right, I saw what can best be described as a white fog sweeping towards me. It had already enveloped the building on the other side of the road before I realised I was going to get very wet. The next instant, it seemed that someone had turned on a fire… Read More »
Worryingly, I have realised that it is almost a lifetime ago that I was last in Munich. Actually that is not quite true because I was there about 5 years ago to watch a performance of Pygmalion in which my daughter was acting, but, fun as that was, my memories of Munich are from the… Read More »