《Data processing and the law》

IntroductionColin Campbell Professor of Jurisprudence, The Queen's University of Belfast1

Part Ⅰ: Legal Information and Modern Technology15

The impact of technology on legal information processing and some of the ramificationsStephen J. Skelly Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice, Ottawa, Canada17

Legal information services: some trends and characteristicsJon Bing Norwegian Research Centre on Computers and Law, Norway29

Beauty and the beast: the lawyer and legal informationAnne Foster Executive Canada Law Books and formerly Director, Computers and Law, Canadian Law Information Council46

Part Ⅱ: Techniques for Lawyers71

Speedier processing and escaping from Boolean logicD. L. Pape Senior Lecturer in Law, Australian National University of Canberra73

An experiment with citation vectorsColin Tapper Reader in Law, Magdalen College, Oxford90

The uses of models in legislative planningW.R. Svoboda Independent Consultant, Austria110

Intelligent legal information systems: problems and prospectsL. Thorne McCarty Professor of Law and Computer Science, Rutgeis University125

Part Ⅲ: The Legal Control of Technology153

Legislating for data privacySir Norman Lindop Chairman of the Home Office Data Protection Committee, 1976-1978155

Breach of confidence: proposals for reformPeter M. North Law Commissioner for England and Wales; Fellow of Keble College, Oxford171

Copyright protection of computer programsBryan Niblett Professor of Computer Science, University of Wales194

Copyright and micro computers-some current legal problemsPeter Prescott Barrister209

Towards a unified theory of proprietary protection for digital information systemsJames Sprowl Director of Computers and Law, American Bar Foundation221

Index243