Martyn Berkin MA (Cambridge) Barrister

JURISDICTION
(A roadmap for bringing cross border cases and enforcing foreign judgments)

1.Law speak
Applicable law Where the parties have neither expressly nor impliedly selected a law to govern their contract, the “applicable law” is that of the country with which the contract is mostly connected. Applicable law in the UK is currently governed by the Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990 (made under the Rome Convention 1980). As from December 2009 the Act… Continue

COPYRIGHT VERSUS THE INTERNET

With the development and growth of the internet and the expansion, in particular, of digital media, unauthorised copies of these various types of copyrighted works can be transferred easily into electronic format and made available to the public in ways that infringe upon the copyright owner’s rights.

Copyright and the law
The main problems that can be identified with regards to the operation and protection of copyright law on the internet are:

• The size of t… Continue