Darren Grayson Chng, our Associate Editor for Singapore, summarises the Bill and local reaction to it….
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Announcing our International Associate Editors
David Chaplin, SCL’s Development Editor, introduces a new initiative and asks for help…
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Smart Contracts: Double-edged Sword
Katie Simmonds and Jonathan Smart explain that smart contracts do not presage the death of lawyers but provide a useful tool for lawyers to exploit…
Application of Article 10 of the GDPR to the Financial Services’ Sector in the UK
Simon Brown and Helen Woollett explore and deplore the potential effect of Article 10 on the capacity of organisation concerned with financial services to monitor for fraud and other breaches of law…
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CJEU Declares EU/Canada PNR Agreement Invalid
The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared that the agreement envisaged between the EU and Canada on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data may not be concluded in its current form, stating that several provisions of the draft agreement do not accord with fundamental rights recognised by the EU…
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Influencing Technology-related Legislation: the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and Legal Professional Privilege
Carolina Gasparoli and Tim Hill recount the history of the battle to gain greater protection for LPP…
Online Courts Hackathon: the IT Group Experience
Aaron Pickett looks back on the time when the IT Group developers took on the 24-hour Online Courts Hackathon challenge…
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Collaboration at the Online Courts Hackathon: We Need to Talk about CoLin
A joint team from Wavelength Law and the Law Society of England and Wales won the Online Courts Hackathon on 2 July with their slick ‘pathfinder’ technology and voice interaction with COLIN (the Courts OnLINe help agent). Laurence Eastham asked Drew Winlaw and Ben Gardner from Wavelength and Sophia Adams Bhatti from the Law Society for their thoughts about the experience, the collaboration and the future uses of the hackathon’s ideas….
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Artificial Intelligence: The Real Legal Issues
Based on his presentation at the SCL Conference in June, John C. Buyers takes us on a tour of the AI issues for tech lawyers and points out the hotspots…
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Digital Economy Act Commencement
The DEA implementation is now underway as the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/765) is published….