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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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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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What are the principles that underpin an effective expert report? What practical considerations help to ensure it withstands scrutiny? At what points do instructing solicitors interact with it? In the next in a series on expert witnesses, William Hooper sets out what he thinks makes a good one. In modern dispute resolution, whether in the…

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Indraneel Basu Majumdar highlights the common law similarities between the UK and emerging crypto regulations in two Gulf regions – Abu Dhabi and Dubai – and how those advising could factor them into their advice Introduction As stablecoins and tokenised assets move from speculative trading into mainstream settlement and collateral workflows, businesses are increasingly “jurisdiction…

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The Competition and Markets Authority has launched a strategic market status (SMS) investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem and set out details of what the investigation will cover. This is the fourth SMS investigation opened by the CMA since the UK’s digital markets competition regime came into force in January 2025. The CMA says that…

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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…

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The European Commission has preliminarily found that Meta’s Instagram and Facebook services breach the Digital Services Act (DSA) for failing to identify and mitigate the risk of minors below the age of 13 accessing the services. Meta’s terms and conditions set the minimum age to access Facebook and Instagram at 13. However, the Commission has…

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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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In RTM -v- Bonne Terre Limited and another [2026] EWCA Civ 488, the Court of Appeal has clarified that the test for whether consent has been lawfully given under data protection law is objective, not subjective, overturning a High Court decision concerning targeted gambling advertising. In other words, the focus is on what the data…

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The Adovcate General has recently issued his opinion in the joined Cases C-496/23 P | Meta Platforms Ireland v Commission (Facebook Marketplace) and C-497/23 P | Meta Platforms Ireland v Commission (Facebook Data). He advises the Court of Justice to dismiss Meta’s appeals concerning an ongoing EU investigation into potential abuse of a dominant position…

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The Court of Appeal recently issued its judgment in DSG Retail Ltd v The Information Commissioner [2026] EWCA Civ 140.  In summary, the ICO successfully appealed that DSG Retail Limited was required to have appropriate organisational and technical security measures even if data that is compromised is not identifiable by a cyber-attacker. The court considered…

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Jonathan Hewett summarises and analyses this week’s important Supreme Court decision over patent protection for AI and computer-implemented inventions In a landmark decision on 11 February 2026, the UK Supreme Court has fundamentally reshaped the UK’s approach to the patentability of computer-implemented inventions. In positive news for patentees, the Judgment overrules almost 20 years of patent practice…

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Aaron Trebble summarises a recent Court of Appeal judgment which looked at vitual assets as property under the Theft Act The Court of Appeal in R v Lakeman has determined that virtual gold pieces in the online role-playing game Old School Runescape constitute “property” for the purposes of the Theft Act 1968. Whilst not required…

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David Chaplin, editor of Computers & Law, reflects on the recent Annual AI conference that looked at the challenges of AI implementation through the eyes of business A case study stitched together the presentations at the annual SCL AI conference hosted at the HSFK offices a couple of weeks ago. It was all about how…

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Mauricio Figueroa summarises the key points from the SCL AI Conference hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills on 8th October. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics, trainees, in-house lawyers, and civil society representatives gathered at Herbert Smith Freehills’ offices in London for the annual Society for Computers and Law AI conference. The event brought together experts to explore the…

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Victor Gurr, Trainee Solicitor, Gisby Harrison Solicitors was nominated to attend the recent SCL 50th Anniversary Conference on 10 October 2023 as a tech law “rising star”.  “Rising stars” are invited to record their impressions of the Conference in any form they choose (in previous years these have been event reports, infographs and even poems!). These…

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What separates humanity from technology? The sudden omniscience of ChatGPT in November 2022 has prompted a good deal of philosophising on that question with the apparent gap between the human and the machine growing ever less defined. There is as yet little common ground on where the boundary lies but one oft cited difference is…

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