AI in the Legal Sector: Debunking the Myths
Robert Morley embraces the potential of AI in legal but believes that AI will only ever be a useful tool – a servant rather than the lawyer’s master…
Intellectual Property
Blockchain: From Theory to Practice
Sue McLean takes a careful look at a series of common questions that arise, and are likely to arise with increasing frequency, where support is sought from practitioners on a blockchain project…
European Commission’s Internal Task Force on FinTech
Pearse Ryan and Robert Cain highlight the role of an EU task force and the issues it is likely to address…
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Trust me, I’m a computer
Manish Soni sheds some light on a vital area – trusted computing – which underpins our computing and which few IT lawyers understand…
Facebook, Illegality and the E-commerce Directive
In light of the judgment in CG v Facebook in the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal, Professor Lorna Woods asks: when is Facebook liable for illegal content under the E-commerce Directive?…
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Freedom of Movement
Laurence Eastham offers a cautionary tale about the monitoring of movements…
E-commerce: EC to Lower the Burdens of Cross-border Taxation
Heather Burns explains how proposed changes to the taxation of cross-border digital services represent an acknowledgement of the unintended consequences of digital legislation….
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Most Exponential Law Firms 2025
An entertaining and insightful article from Rohit Talwar and Alexandra Whittington, as they look ahead to a very different law firm environment in 2025. Their stories from the future might just motivate you in the present….
What Happened to My Contract?
Alex Charlton QC, Matthew Lavy and Gideon Shirazi review the effect of recent Court of Appeal decisions on a common contract clause that seeks to prevent variations to contractual terms outside the specified change control procedure…
E-commerce: Prohibitions on Resale and Jurisdiction
A recent preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union casts further light on issues concerning jurisdiction, online sale prohibitions, website liability and the measure of damages…
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