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Microsoft has announced the beta release of SharePoint 2010 to the world.
The beta for SharePoint 2010 was first released a couple of days ago to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Everyone else had to be patient. That wait is over. The SharePoint 2010 beta is available to everyone at the new SharePoint 2010 website: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx
In Den Haag, Nederland, de Verenigde Staten een vergadering van het Internationaal Strafhof's raad van bestuur voor de eerste keer woensdag in een teken is gestopt mijden van de wereld&nas;s alleen permanente tribunaal voor oorlogsmisdaden.
De Verenigde Staten hebben niet geratificeerd de rechter&na;s oprichtingsverdrag, de Rome Statue, deels vanwege angst de rechtbank zou een forum voor politiek gemotiveerde vervolgingen van de Amerikaanse te worden. troepen.
voortgezetIn een eerste, US. Gezant Attends Internationaal Gerechtshof Meeting.
The first session at the Thomson Reuters e-Disclosure Conference in London last week was called The Continuing Challenges of Preservation, Collection and Exchange. George Socha’s panel included a solicitor, a software provider and a judge – Matthew Davis of Lovells, Stephen Whetstone of Stratify and HHJ Simon Brown QC.
Judge Brown said that the court is interested in the material, and only the material, needed for a decision. The point at issue in Earles v Barclays Bank Plc [2009] EWHC 2500 (Mercantile) (08 Oktober 2009), on which he recently gave judgment, was not a difficult one. The judge is the end user of the disclosure process and needs contemporaneous documents. He had been given many documents which were not relevant to the issues which he had to decide, but not the ones which actually mattered. Witness statements drawn up by lawyers are often not worth the paper they are written on relative to the contemporaneous documents, in this case the records of telephone conversations.
Given the state of modern technology, it should not be difficult to find such documents. There was no question of malicious concealment in this case, but if documents were missing then someone was to blame. Although there was no duty to keep documents prior to the threat of litigation, there was a serious risk of an adverse inference if it proved not possible to produce them. A proper search must be put in hand right at the outset.
The issue was not limited to banks or other commercial entities. The Baby P case (where drafts of critical documents were not produced until a new lawyer joined the Council and made a proper search) showed that public bodies similarly need to produce the documents to prove their case.
Continued at The Continuing Challenges of Preservation, Collection and Exchange « Chris Dale Lawyer Support.
As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guide the rulings of other judges in similar cases and jurisdictions. Over time, these legal opinions build, refine and clarify the laws that govern our land. For average citizens, evenwel, it can be difficult to find or even read these landmark opinions. We think that's a problem: Laws that you don't know about, you can't follow — or make effective arguments to change.
Starting today, we&na;re enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in. Bijvoorbeeld, go to Google Scholar, click on the “Legal opinions and journals” radio button, and try the query separate but equal. Your search results will include links to cases familiar to many of us in the U.S. such as Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, which explore the acceptablity of “separate but equal” facilities for citizens at two different points in the history of the U.S. But your results will also include opinions from cases that you might be less familiar with, but which have played an important role.
We think this addition to Google Scholar will empower the average citizen by helping everyone learn more about the laws that govern us all. To understand how an opinion has influenced other decisions, you can explore citing and related cases using the Cited by and Related articles links on search result pages. As you read an opinion, you can follow citations to the opinions to which it refers. You can also see how individual cases have been quoted or discussed in other opinions and in articles from law journals. Browse these by clicking on the “How Cited” link next to the case title. Zien, bijvoorbeeld, the frequent citations for Roe v. Wade, for Miranda v. Arizona (the source of the famous Miranda warning) or for Terry v. Ohio (a case which helped to establish acceptable grounds for an investigative stop by a police officer).
As we worked to build this feature, we were struck by how readable and accessible these opinions are. Court opinions don’t just describe a decision but also present the reasons that support the decision. In doing so, they explain the intricacies of law in the context of real-life situations. And they often do it in language that is surprisingly straightforward, even for those of us outside the legal profession. In veel gevallen, judges have gone quite a bit out of their way to make complex legal issues easy to follow. Bijvoorbeeld, in Korematsu v. Verenigde Staten, the Supreme Court justices present a fascinating and easy-to-follow debate on the legality of internment of natural born citizens based on their ancestry. And in Verenigde Staten v. Ramirez-Lopez, Justice Kozinski, in his dissent, illustrates the key issue of the case using an imagined good-news/bad-news dialogue between the defendant and his attorney.
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the work of several pioneers, who have worked on making it possible for an average citizen to educate herself about the laws of the land: Tom Bruce (Cornell LII), Jerry Dupont (LLMC), Graham Greenleaf and Andrew Mowbray (AustLII), Carl Malamud (Public.Resource.Org), Daniel Poulin (LexUM), Tim Stanley (Justia), Joe Ury (BAILII), Tim Wu (AltLaw) and many others. It is an honor to follow in their footsteps. We would also like to acknowledge the judges who have built this cathedral of justice brick by brick and have tried to make it accessible to the rest of us. We hope Google Scholar will help all of us stand on the shoulders of these giants.
In what is certain to be a noisy development, Google has quietly added state and federal case law and patent searching to its Google Scholar search service. Also included is the How Cited citator service.
The Google Scholar welcome screen presents three new radio buttons allowing you to search either Articles, Articles and Patents or Legal Opinions and Journals. Bizarrely for Google, you have to choose and can’t search all at once. Go to Google Scholar Advanced Search (and scroll to the bottom) to further limit case law searching.
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Businesses that were scared of saving money by using Skype because lawsuits might take away its essential VoIP technology may not have to worry anymore.
Ownership of the company will shift from eBay to include others, but the company will finally own rights to essential code, meaning it won&na;t fall victim to having that code stripped away by a judge and stranding customers.
That lifts the main barrier to business use of the VoIP service that has expanded over the years from a peer-to-peer phone application to include services specially crafted for corporate use. “I would be a lot more interested in Skype than I was a week ago,” says Irwin Lazar, an analyst with Nemertes Research.
Just last month, in the midst of litigation that has since been settled, he was advising businesses to stay away, but now it&na;s safe to try to reap the cost savings Skype can afford, zegt hij.
via Skype for Business klinkt het all-clear over de juridische valkuilen – Network World.
Japanse imaging gigant Canon Inc is ingesteld op overname Europe's grootste fabrikant van de printer, Océ for approximately €730 million ($1.1 miljard) in een all-cash deal, gericht op de wereld te scheppen's grootste drukkerijen entiteit, profiteren van een uitstekende aanvulling passen in product line-up, R&D en business lines.
Volgens de voorwaardelijke overeenkomst bereikt tussen gisteren zowel de bedrijven, Canon aangeboden aan alle van de uitstaande aandelen van Oce te kopen tegen € 8,60 per aandeel, wat neerkomt op een 70-procent premie op de slotkoers op 13 November en 137 procent boven de gemiddelde prijs over het afgelopen jaar. Het aanbod waarden 100 procent van het uitgegeven en uitstaande aandelen van Oce op circa € 730 miljoen.
Houders van Oce&na;s cumulatief preferente aandelen Ducatus NV, ASR Nederland NV en ING AM Insurance Companies BV, met ongeveer 19 procent van het totale aandelenkapitaal, en een andere grote aandeelhouder Bestinver Gestion SA bezit over 9.5 procent zijn overeengekomen om hun aandelen aan Cannon.
Naar aanleiding van de overname nieuws, Aandelen Oce omhooggeschoten 70 procent te sluiten op € 8,62 gisteren op de Amsterdamse Effectenbeurs, terwijl de Canon aandelen naar beneden 1.5 procent op ¥ 3370 in Tokio.
Venlo, Nederland gevestigde Oce is een van de wereld&na;s werelds toonaangevende leveranciers van document management en printen door het aanbieden van oplossingen voor kantoorsystemen voor printen en kopiëren, snelle digitale printers, grootformaat printsystemen voor technische documentatie en display graphics in kleur alsmede de daarmee samenhangende diensten en leveringen. Het bedrijf heeft sterke aanwezigheid in Europa en Noord-Amerika en heeft ongeveer 22,000 mensen. Zijn 2008 de omzet bedroeg $4.3 miljard.
via domein-b.com : Canon Nederlandse drukker maker Oce te verwerven voor $1.1 miljard.
Vandaag, we&na;ve launched three new features as well as a new look and feel for Google Translate — a service that helps people access information throughout the world by enabling them to automatically translate text and and web pages into their own language. Google Translate offers 51 talen, representing over 98% of Internet users today.
Along with our shiny new layout, these new features should make it faster and easier for you to translate text between our 2550 language pairs:
Translate instantly: Say goodbye to the old “Vertalen” knop. Google Translate now translates your text right as you type.
Read and write any language: Want to say “Today is a good day” in Chinese, but can&na;t read Han characters? Klikken “Show romanization” to read the text written phonetically in English. Op dit moment, this works for all non-Roman languages except for Hebrew, Arabic and Persian.
We also have a new input transliteration feature for Arabic, Persian or Hindi. If you want to translate from one of these languages, but can&na;t type the script on your keyboard, our input transliteration feature will allow you to type words as they sound and convert them to native script.
via Officiële Google Blog: Een nieuwe look voor Google Translate.
The costs of civil discovery in the computer age appear to be prompting divergent responses by the federal and New York state courts. These differences, which are still evolving, could have significant implications for litigants and lawmakers.
Litigants with a choice of forum should consider these differences in selecting which court system best suits their objectives. And lawmakers should monitor these differences to assess what rules best reconcile the often competing goals of ready access to the civil justice system, full development of the facts relevant to the case, and the efficient, cost-effective resolution of the parties&na; geschil.
The costs of electronic discovery are well-known and have received ample coverage throughout this decade, in this publication and others.
The source of these costs is society&na;s increasing reliance on the electronic creation, transmission and retention of information, especially in the corporate context. Because information is so easily created, kept and copied, the volume that is available and potentially relevant to a dispute had ballooned geometrically.
While these costs can be somewhat controlled by the creative use of technology and counsel&na;s use of sound management principles in managing a document review, there are limits. The application of classic liberal discovery principles can still require the production of hundreds of thousands or even millions of “documenten,” where in the past the same case would have involved discovery into a small fraction of that number.
Retaining and collecting this information is by itself extraordinarily expensive, even when the most efficient methods are employed. And on top of those costs, attorneys still must review the collected material for responsiveness and privilege, which can be prohibitively expensive for even a middle-sized case that is well managed. These costs can be so large that they have recently been blamed for tamping down the usual increase in litigation that accompanies an economic recession.
These increased costs have fundamentally changed the cost-benefit calculus that had informed many of the rules of procedure applicable in civil cases. Lawmakers accordingly have responded by seeking to recalibrate the rules to reflect the new reality.
In the federal system, there have been changes in the rules of discovery and evidence that apply once a case is past the threshold pleading stage, as well as recent changes by the U.S. Supreme Court in the standards that apply even to the commencement of a potentially burdensome action. And in the New York state system, there has been increasing attention to the application of existing discovery rules in the electronic context.
These changes are creating, or at least highlighting, important differences in how the two court systems address the problems of electronic discovery.
Continued at Legal Technology – Two Roads Diverge in E-Discovery Costs.
Zwitserland zal onthullen de criteria achter de openbaarmaking van 4,450 UBS rekeningen overgedragen aan U.S. belastingambtenaren op een persconferentie van morgen, Bloomberg rapporteert.
Als onderdeel van een late zomer schikking tussen UBS en de VS. overheid, het Zwitserse bankwezen reus ingestemd met de hand over de namen op die rekeningen UBS. (UBS betaalde $780 miljoen in februari tot strafrechtelijke kosten die de bank hielp vestigen rijke Amerikaanse klanten hoeven betalen VS. belastingen.)
Zwitserse ambtenaren wordt verwacht dat het model dat gebruikt wordt door IRS en Ministerie van Justitie advocaten SUSS uit het buitenland belastingontduikers onthullen. De Am Law Daily meldde in augustus dat het ministerie van Justitie misschien nooit een bijlage vrij te geven aan haar UBS overeenstemming waarin de criteria die worden gebruikt om de gewenste 4,450 rekeningen, omdat het doesn&na;t wilt zijn hand tip op de openbaarmaking eisen en mogelijk stimuleren mensen niet te komen onder een amnestie-programma.
De amnestie deadline voor U.S. de burger aan inkomstenbelasting bestand terug onthullen activa weg in offshore belastingparadijzen verstopt doorgegeven oktober 15. Zwitserse autoriteiten ingehouden details van hoe UBS rekeningen werden geselecteerd om niet te interfereren met de IRS&na;s vrijwillige verstrekking van het programma, die zag over 7,500 Amerikanen in te dienen dossiers.
Nu het land&na;s het ministerie van Justitie–het maken van meer koppen recentelijk voor zijn rol in de Roman Polanski geval–zal aankondigen meer intieme details van haar overeenkomst met de VS. toezichthouders. Volgens Bloomberg, de criteria zal waarschijnlijk gebaseerd zijn op een punt systeem dat automatisch in werking de openbaarmaking van bepaalde rekeningen.
Net als speeders wordt getrokken overgenomen door de staat Troopers op een snelweg, bepaalde rekeningen zou opbouwen punten op basis van bepaalde kenmerken. Hebben een miljoen Zwitserse frank in uw lokale spaarbanken in Lakeside Luzern? Dat&na;s een punt. Financiële regelingen opgezet als buitenlandse trusts en stichtingen ook vruchtbare grond voor rode vlaggen, Bloomberg rapporteert.
De IRS heeft onlangs geopende nieuwe kantoor in Beijing, Panama City, en Sydney, als onderdeel van haar inspanningen om hardhandig optreden tegen buitenlandse belastingparadijzen voor Amerikaanse. burgers. Bloomberg meldde onlangs dat Hong Kong is uitgegroeid tot een doelstelling voor de federale aanklagers enthousiast over het bepalen van hoe de rollen financiële professionals eventueel gekoppeld aan belastingontduiking zijn geëvolueerd naar de voormalige Britse kolonie werd teruggegeven aan China in 1997.
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