UK law ICO fines South Staffordshire plc and South Staffordshire Water plc £963,900 following cyberattack and data breach The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined South Staffordshire plc and South Staffordshire Water plc £963,900. This follows a cyberattack and data breach which led to the personal information of 633,887 customers and employees being extracted and published…
Why Better Judgment Matters More Than Better Rules In the second of a series of three articles looking at the lawyers and AI through a philosophical lens, Gareth Davies ponders the alignment trap and why AI is not the problem, its users are. When something goes wrong with AI, the instinct is to blame the…
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU have agreed the Digital Omnibus on AI. This follows their original failure to agree last month. The Digital Omnibus on AI was proposed on 19 November 2025, aiming to simplify the AI Act while maintaining its level of protection. It was published with another digital omnibus aimed at streamlining…
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UK law Patents Court rules in FRAND case In Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd and another v ZTE Corp and others [2026] EWHC 999 (Pat), the Patents Court set the terms of a global FRAND portfolio cross-licence for ETSI-declared SEPs, renewing the parties’ 2021 licence (the 2021 PLA). The Court set a FRAND lump-sum balancing payment…
Winona Chan sets out the fundamentals of legal privilege and how to protect it when using generative AI tools. Generative AI (GenAI) is now embedded in day-to-day business workflows, from drafting documents to analysing information and summarising meetings. For in-house legal teams, this raises a critical question: how can legal professional privilege be preserved when…
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UK law ICO updates guidance on direct marketing using electronic mail The ICO has issued its guidance on direct marketing using electronic mail. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 introduced a new soft opt-in for charitable purposes in PECR regulation 22(3A). This allows charities to send direct marketing by electronic mail without people’s consent…
A team from Norton Rose Fulbright run through some of the novel issues advisors need to consider now so many outsourcing projects involve the use of AI Traditionally, IT outsourcings (ITOs) and business process outsourcings (BPOs) have been centred around the delivery of services by personnel with clear service descriptions and performance requirements and may…
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UK law Data Protection Act 2018 (Code of Practice on Artificial Intelligence and Automated Decision-Making) Regulations 2026 made The Data Protection Act 2018 (Code of Practice on Artificial Intelligence and Automated Decision-Making) Regulations 2026 SI 2016/425 have been made. They require the Information Commissioner to prepare a code of practice on the processing of personal…
A team from Lewis Silkin round up the latest guidance from arbitral institutions on the use of AI Artificial intelligence has already transformed how the legal profession operates, including in research, data analysis and document preparation through platforms (such as Harvey used by our own firm, Lewis Silkin). However, as Dame Victoria Sharp observed in Ayinde…
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Gareth Davies is inspired by the Greek philosopher when engaging with AI. There’s no shortage of advice on how to prompt AI: be clear, provide context, identify your audience, specify the format. Useful, but incomplete. For lawyers, prompting isn’t just a technical problem. It’s also a professional one. The danger isn’t silence; it’s receiving an…
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