‘Richard Burrows evaded justice for decades after stealing the identity of a terminally ill acquaintance – until detectives used facial recognition tool to track him down.’
The Independent, 19th March 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Lawyers need to avoid being “so seduced” by what artificial intelligence (AI) can do “that they don’t appreciate what it cannot”, a professional negligence specialist warned last week.’
Legal Futures, 17th March 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice, delivered the keynote speech on Wednesday 12 March to the LawTech UK Conference 2025.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 12th March 2025
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘The use of AI to generate so-called “deepfakes” – artificial images of events that never happened, usually featuring the likeness of real people (most often celebrities) – has grown considerably in recent years. The use of AI-generated deepfakes by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, at the start of the recent AI Action Summit in Paris has renewed press and public attention to the associated problems’
Mills & Reeve, 5th March 2025
Source: www.mills-reeve.com
‘Computer scientist Dr Craig Wright has been ordered to pay £225,000 in legal costs by a judge after he was found to have “improperly used AI” in a failed bid to appeal against a High Court ruling that he is not the founder of Bitcoin.’
The Independent, 6th March 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Anja Beriro looks at the potential use of artificial intelligence in public sector procurements.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st February 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Tech platforms should combat the rapid rise in explicit deepfakes and “revenge porn” by using a database of images to protect women and girls online, according to new guidance being drawn up by the UK communications watchdog.’
The Guardian, 25th February 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Lady Chief Justice, The Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, held her annual press conference yesterday (Tuesday 18 February 2025).’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 19th February 2025
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘AI tools could be reaching the stage where they could be used as a cross-check for lawyers working on a legal issue, a new report has concluded.’
Law Society's Gazette, 20th February 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Legal controls over development and use of artificial intelligence hit an obstacle this week, as the US and UK refused to back a statement in support of AI regulation signed by 60 other countries.’
Law Society's Gazette, 18th February 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Ministers must heed warnings from the creative industries over the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on copyright and provide them with legal protections, according to MPs.’
The Independent, 12th February 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The master of the rolls was preaching to the converted at the latest LawtechUK event. His message was clear: artificial intelligence is here to stay and the profession should be prepared to embrace it.’
Law Society's Gazette, 9th February 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, gave a speech on Wednesday 5 February 2025 at the LawtechUK Generative AI Event in London.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 5th February 2025
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘Creators of AI-generated images of child sexual abuse will face up to five years in prison in a new government crackdown. Home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced that the UK will be the first country in the world to make it illegal to own artificial intelligence tools designed to make images of child sexual abuse.’
The Independent, 2nd February 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Law reform charity JUSTICE has proposed the first rights-based framework to guide AI use across the UK justice system in a report that has urged the deployment of the technology be guided by a “clear purpose and responsibility”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 30th January 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘White mail system handles “highly sensitive personal data” and people not told it is processing their information.’
The Guardian, 27th January 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Plans to force AI developers to disclose what content they use to train their AI models could support a new wave of mass claims litigation by content creators, an expert in intellectual property law has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th January 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Prohibiting AI developers from training their AI models with copyrighted content without a licence in all cases would likely harm the UK’s global competitiveness in AI development, the UK government has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 17th December 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The value of the medico-legal market grew by 4% in 2024, double the growth rate of the previous year, researchers have estimated.’
Legal Futures, 12th December 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Commercially important questions concerning the degree to which software, including artificial intelligence (AI) systems, can be patented, are to be considered by the UK’s highest court in what will be the second important AI patent case to come before it.’
OUTLAW.com, 3rd December 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
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