ICT Law
This area of the law focuses on the legal risks posed by information technology, information security and information management.
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Emails can be records which you may be required to keep for a variety of reasons. Unlike the public sector, there is no E-Records Regulator in the private sector. This means that, by and large it is up to you to determine how to retain and manage your electronic documents, including email, in a manner that promotes admissibility, evidentiary strength (weight) and satisfies legal and business requirements.
Two recent Canadian court decisions considered the Internet
as a medium for defaming individuals and whether the laws
that restrict damaging communication in print apply in
the same manner to the worldwide web.
If somebody registers a domain name and you think that he is abusing your intellectual property rights by doing so, you can bring an application in terms of the procedure and the adjudicator can order that the domain be transferred to you.
Can a click of a button constitute a valid contract?
If you want to make it absolutely clear that your company will only regard itself bound by a conventional notice, you must stipulate in your contract of employment that 'signed' refers to a hand-written signature