Information Technology

The barristers at 4 New Square have considerable expertise across a wide range of technology and telecommunications-related disputes, both domestic and international.

We act in disputes across a number of different industries involving a wide range subject matters including project failures and contractual disputes, software and hardware development and implementation, systems integration, intellectual property disputes, cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, online gaming and gambling, cloud computing, data centres, smart grids, ad tech, systems integration and data protection.

In addition, as the market leading set for professional negligence work, we have extensive experience in advising on professional liability claims which relate to information technology professionals.

Our barristers have been instructed in some of the most significant technology cases in recent years. Examples include:

• Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Dr Craig Steven Wright (concerning whether Dr Wright, an Australian computer scientist, is actually Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous individual who invented Bitcoin); and
• IBM v LzLabs & Ors (a dispute concerning the developing of a rival product to the IBM Mainframe), both of which featured in the Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2024.