Lynn Richmond looks at the way we apportion blame in law and the need for a reconsideration of the relevant law in the light of the development of AI. She goes on to bring the issue close to home by considering the liability of lawyers in the future AI-influenced practice of law…
New Code of Practice on the Investigation of Protected Electronic Information
A new Code of Practice applies from 15 August…
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Website Photos and Copyright
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the posting on a website of a photograph that was freely accessible on another website with the consent of the author requires a new authorisation by that author…
Product Review: Gemini – the Psion 2.0!
Dr W Kuan Hon has a new gadget and she loves it…
SCL Conference Keynote – the Power of Creative Abrasion
Laurence Eastham spoke to Nilema Bhakta-Jones about her forthcoming keynote at the SCL Conference on 27 September….
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Online courts: what will they look like?
Mark O’Conor, the SCL Chair, looks at recent developments in online justice and looks forward to an exciting event in which SCL is very much involved…
Could the English Courts Give Judgments in Bitcoin?
Looking across jurisdictions and back to the 18th century, Lawrence Akka QC and Henry Byam-Cook consider a question for the here and now…
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Commons Select Committee’s Interim Report on Disinformation and ‘fake news’
In a first interim report in its Disinformation and ‘fake news’ inquiry, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has issued a series of stark warnings and made a series of recommendations….
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Singapore’s worst cyber attack to-date
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore Associate Editor, reports on the fall out from a hack of the non-medical data of 1.5 million patients….
Cloud and Other Digital Services Providers – Security & Incident Notification Obligations under the UK NIS Regulations, and GDPR comparison
Dr W Kuan Hon explains the impact of the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018…