Principal Causes of IT Disputes

The successful implementation of technology is of critical importance to organisations. The implementation of technology can fail as a result of systems not meeting business requirements, scope creep, defects and fit for purpose issues, cost and time overrunning and project management difficulties. Understanding the principal causes of IT disputes will help organisations avoid such issues.

By applying key rules when engaging in pre-contract negotiations, drafting the contract (and, in particular, important terms such as the choice of governing law and jurisdiction) and performing the contract, technology customers, software suppliers and developers, project managers and sub-contractors will go some way to avoiding disputes in this sector and ensuring that they are better placed to deal with disputes in the event that they do arise.

Taylor Wessing's Technology Disputes Group has considerable expertise in handling disputes in the Information Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector. However, we recognise that with some strategic exceptions, protracted disputes are a major distraction to a business. Our main objective, therefore, is to help organisations avoid disputes happening in the first place.

We are currently offering a training session, free of charge, to work through the principal causes of IT disputes and advise on how to avoid them if you can and win them if you can’t. We hope that the training is of interest and invite you to contact a member of the team for further details.

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The Principal Causes of IT Disputes

Lawyers David de Ferrars, Janet Tobin