Why Better Judgment Matters More Than Better Rules In the second of a series of three articles looking at the lawyers and AI through a philosophical lens, Gareth Davies ponders the alignment trap and why AI is not the problem, its users are. When something goes wrong with AI, the instinct is to blame the…
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…
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…
A team from Lewis Silkin round up the latest guidance from arbitral institutions on the use of AI Artificial intelligence has already transformed how the legal profession operates, including in research, data analysis and document preparation through platforms (such as Harvey used by our own firm, Lewis Silkin). However, as Dame Victoria Sharp observed in Ayinde…
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Gareth Davies is inspired by the Greek philosopher when engaging with AI. There’s no shortage of advice on how to prompt AI: be clear, provide context, identify your audience, specify the format. Useful, but incomplete. For lawyers, prompting isn’t just a technical problem. It’s also a professional one. The danger isn’t silence; it’s receiving an…
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Managing Trust in Machine-Generated Analysis Kenneth Tombs with a truly novel approach that aims to create trust in evidence created using AI and a call for help to help him test the idea. The chief compliance officer of a global financial organisation when testing AI internally, shared with the author: “I tested it [an…
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BCC errors still cause a good deal of regulatory intervention. Dr W Kuan Hon has catalogued some below. This table supplements an article on the data protection risks of not using BCC available here. Below, in reverse chronological order of decision publication date, are selected (non-exhaustive) examples, as at March 2026, of incidents where emails…
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Dr W Kuan Hon and Dr Eoin Woods highlight the ongoing data protection issues caused by not using BCC and suggest some technical solutions. Introduction Sending bulk emails with recipients listed in the TO or CC fields rather than using Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) is a commonly occurring data security incident, with over 2,000 such…
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