Queen Mary, University of London

Gavin Sutter LLB, LLM (Queens, Belfast)

Gavin Sutter read Honours Law at Queen's University, Belfast between 1994-1997. During 1997-98 he read for the LLM Degree of Computers and Law, graduating with distinction in December 1998 before joining CCLS in February 1999.


Research Interests

Gavin's personal research interests include a wide range of content regulations issues as they apply to material on the internet (e.g. obscenity, defamation, copyright infringement). He has also been actively involved in a wide range of other research, including the interception of electronic communications for the purposes of criminal investigations, the enforcement of Internet regulation and electronic payment systems.


Publications Since 2001

Internet Service Providers and Liability, in M. Klang and A. Murray (Editors), Human Rights in the Digital Age, London: Routledge, 2005, 71-84, ISBN: 1904385311 [URL]

Defamation on the Net, in S. Stokes and R. Carolins (Editors), Encyclopedia of E-commerce Law, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2004, 17-1 to 17-50, ISBN: 0421742607 [URL]

Electronic Commerce (Co-author with C. Reed), in C. Reed and J. Angel (Editors), Computer Law, 5ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 331-392, ISBN: 0199263507 [URL]

Penny Dreadfuls and Perverse Domains: Victorian and Modern Moral Panics, in J. Rowbotham and K. Stevenson (Editors), Behaving Badly: Visible Crime, Social Panics and Legal Responses - Victorian and Modern Parallels, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, ISBN: 0754609650 [URL]

Don't shoot the messenger? The evolution of liability for third party provided content in the UK [2003] 17(1) International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 73-84, ISSN: 1360-0869 [URL]

Directive 97/7/EC on the Protection of Consumers in Respect of Distance Contracts (Co-author with J. Hornle and I. Walden), in A. Lodder and H. Kaspersen (Editors), eDirectives: Guide to European Union Law on E-Commerce, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002, 11-22, ISBN: 9041117520 [URL]

Electronic Payments: The Smart Card (Co-author with S. Newman) [2002] 18(4-5) Computer Law and Security Report 235-240 and 307-313, ISSN: 0267-3649 [URL] and [URL]

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000: An Update Part One: Interception of Content and An Update Part Two: Communications Data, Encryption, Scrutiny and the Way Ahead [2002] 4(11-12) Electronic Business Law 4-7 and 4-6, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

Publish and be damned? [2001] 3(11) Electronic Business Law 5-7, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

To have and to hold and to handover: data security and data handover (Co-author with Gillen) [2001] 3(9) Electronic Business Law 11-13, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

Big Brother goes online: e-mail monitoring and interception 2001 [2001] 3(2) Electronic Business Law 9-12, ISSN: 1464-9624 [URL]

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