Jake Eddison-Cook looks at the recent developments in criminal disclosure under the shadow of AI and asks where responsibility lies when human decision making is based on algorithmic curation. NOTE: References to paragraphs are references to UK Government’s document Modernising the Criminal Disclosure Regime. The Ministry of Justice AI Action Plan, published earlier this year,…
Kenneth Tombs with some personal observations on the rapid advances in legal AI practice and thinking Intellectually, the pace of emerging AI technology is unlike anything I have experienced during more than forty years working through successive generations of emerging information technologies. Rarely has commercial capability and academic research advanced so rapidly, or in such…
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The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) has published its Legal Statement on Liability for AI Harms under the private law of England and Wales, concluding that English law is largely capable of dealing with AI-related harm without the need for a bespoke AI liability regime. The statement aims to provide greater certainty for businesses, developers, professional…
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The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) (which includes the CMA, FCA, ICO and Ofcom), has published insights about how it aims to advance the safe and effective use of generative AI across its member regulators. It aims to strengthen regulatory capability, consumer protections and ensure alignment with the UK Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan. The…
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UK law Select Committee warns UK government must set out strategy to achieve sovereign AI capabilities The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has published a report saying that, in an era of geopolitical instability and technological competition, the UK government “may not be able to count on its allies” for access to…
UK law Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority issue approach document on joint regulation of systemic stablecoin issuers The Bank of England and FCA’s approach document sets out how the UK’s new stablecoin regime will operate when a stablecoin issuer becomes systemically important. Under the framework, the FCA will regulate all UK-issued qualifying stablecoins,…
Ken Tombs reflects on the Law Society’s foresight report on the future of agentic AI and compares it against practitioner and international perspectives (as at June 2026) 1. Introduction The Law Society of England and Wales published its foresight report on agentic AI in legal practice in February 2026. It arrives at a point where…
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At London Tech Week, the UK government announced a cluster of AI initiatives with direct relevance to legal technology, legal services regulation and justice system modernisation. AI Growth Labs The government is launching the advisory AI Growth Labs, a new advisory sandbox intended to accelerate the development and deployment of AI products and services by…
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UK law UK government consults on data intermediaries Data intermediaries are third-party organisations that act on behalf of individuals to exercise their data subject rights under data protection legislation. Services range from secure personal data storage to donating health data to support scientific research. Last year’s call for evidence identified key issues affecting data intermediaries,…
Law, AI, and the Apprenticeship of Judgment Gareth Davies thinks the gap between the AI’s output and the practitioner’s correction is where wisdom lives As lawyers learn from working with AI, the AI can be built to learn from working with lawyers. This is not a philosophical point but a structural one, and the structure…