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Bench and Bar Dinner

At the New Zealand Bar Association's Bench and Bar dinner in Auckland on 9 June with Fiona McLeod SC (President of the Australian Law Council) Kathryn Beck (President of the…

Hyperlinks May Infringe Copyright

The Court of Justice of the European Union has cast doubt on the relatively orthodox view that a hyperlink on a website that links to copyrighted material does not constitute an…

Lawyers Replaced by Computers? Not quite yet…

I enjoyed participating in the debate yesterday at LawFest 2017 https://lawfest.nz/SessionsPage/the-annual-lawfest-debate/ Graham Kohler QC and I argued against the entirely misconceived proposition: “That legal perfection will be achieved when lawyers…

Cancer Cure Soon?

I never thought I would say this but the truly awful image below, of a cancer cell, may in our life times be a thing of the past as cancer…

Patent Infringement

Just finished a three-week trial before Whata J in the High Court in Auckland – representing the patentee Assa Abloy which alleged that the defendant, Allegion, had infringed certain claims of its…

Instant Apps

Google plans to merge webpages and apps http://www.wired.com/2016/05/instant-apps-google-aims-make-web-apps-one/

INTERNET OF THINGS – WEAR TO NOW?

New Zealand Law Society · Cyber Law Conference - April 2016 - Clive Elliott QC The “Internet of Things” represents a real paradigm shift: The internet of things is here.…

Cyber-Bullying

First prosecution under the the Harmful Digital Communications Act for threatening to post nude images.http://nzh.tw/11615758 

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