The Legal Services Consumer Panel has published a discussion paper on lawtech and consumers examining the regulatory framework needed to maximise the opportunities presented by lawtech, while ensuring it delivers the necessary protection for consumers
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The text of a speech presented by Ashley Hurst, Chair of the SCL Media Group, to the Westminster Media Forum policy conference on why he thinks the Online Harms White Paper and the duty of care is not the answer to online disinformation and why the way forward should be focused on technology and education
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Regulations implement a new sanctions regime for cyber-attacks
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The winner of the inaugural SCL Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize 2019 Winner, Robert Lewis, takes a wide-ranging look at the disparities between the laws regulating social networks and those regulating its users and the traditional media
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A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site
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The Communications Data Acquisition Regulations 2019 have been made.
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Christopher Ireland reports on the recent lecture by Professor David Ormerod touching on the Law Commission’s work around online harm and abuse
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Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore Correspondent, reports on the background and passage of Singapore’s controversial fake news law which has extra territorial consequences
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Neil Brown, of decoded.legal, picks out some key practice points from the recent judgment in Rudd v Bridle which dealt with SARs and the use of the litigation privilege exemption
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A letter to SCL members from Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chair of the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce
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