This report was the result of a research project funded, in its first stage, by the Society for Computers and Law. Initially framed as a project to examine and suggest legal changes necessary to facilitate electronic commerce, the first stage project concluded that such changes were unnecessary, provided that the existing laws and regulation were correctly understood, applied, and complied with. The author founded Kalypton® due to the results of his work on the project.

Every financial services regulator jealously guards their jurisdiction when it comes to regulating financial services. This article looked at the jurisdiction issues that arise with financial services over the internet, and examined how both the old regime dealt with these issues, and how these issues were to be dealt with under the then Financial Services and Markets Bill.

Common misconceptions abounded back in 1999 and still occur today. This article highlights some of the issues that will pose problems over the coming years as more and more disparate systems become integreated with each other.

This article, first published as chapter 6 in the first edition of Law & the Internet sets out to explain how contract law applies to transactions on the Internet, and debunks some of the myths that have arisen and continue to surface on occasion. This builds on material first developed in the report entitled A Model for Internet Regulation? Constructing a Framework for Regulating Electronic Commerce.

This article, written for International Business Lawyer, a journal of the International Bar Association, sets out the basic principles of Internet Law.

This short article looks at the apparent conflict between the laws of defamation and need to be able to control content.