‘Imaging orders offer another useful tool to civil fraud litigators needing to urgently prevent the concealment and destruction of relevant digital evidence.’
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Rare is the case that does not feature some aspect of digital technology. The House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee identified that “Digital evidence is now a key component in many criminal trials…[estimating that]…90% of crime has a digital element, in the broadest sense…” Digital forensic evidence is critical in the course of all manner of criminal cases – from online fraud, stalking via social media, in cases where an offence is captured on CCTV, or where the prosecution of a case is reliant on cell site analysis.’
25 Bedford Row, 3rd December 2024
Source: www.25bedfordrow.com
‘The Home Office has admitted that many people who have the right to live and work in the UK cannot access their eVisas and provide proof that they are allowed to be in the country.’
The Guardian, 1st December 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Lady Chief Justice yesterday complained to MPs about the government’s decisions to reduce the digitisation of civil justice and limit sitting days in the criminal courts.’
Legal Futures, 27th November 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Dozens of divorce applications were wrongly approved due to a computer error, the high court has heard.’
The Guardian, 31st October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Digital advancement including artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and biometric recognition are at forefront of new border security and immigration measures in the UK.’
OUT-LAW, 23rd October 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Legal Geek Conference 2024, 16 October 2024 – “The Digital Trading Revolution: Underpinned by Law”
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 16th October 2024
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘The Post Office has recently explored resuming the practice of taking branch owner-operators to court, as mounting losses from shortfalls in its network of 11,500 outlets hit £12m a year. During the Horizon IT scandal more than 900 operators were wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies caused by the faulty accounting software, many of them brought privately by the Post Office, a practice it stopped in 2015 and has promised not to restart. However, the Post Office continued to use the court system for the civil recovery of losses from branches until 2018.’
The Guardian, 13th October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Millions of migrants have been urged to register for a new eVisa scheme as campaigners warn the document could create a digital Windrush scandal.’
The Guardian, 18th September 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The adversarial nature of the compensation scheme for victims of the Post Office scandal is preventing them securing timely redress.’
Law Society's Gazette, 16th September 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘While a recent court ruling has not made it any easier, it remains possible for developers of software – including new artificial intelligence (AI) systems – to obtain patent protection for their inventions in the UK an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 12th August 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Drivers from across the UK said they had received fines for unpaid journeys on the Dartford Crossing despite never having been there.’
BBC News, 12th August 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘With the rising popularity of wellness apps – including those for tracking menstrual cycle, sleep and physical activity – it has become critical that providers of such technology should consider both legal and regulatory compliance and their ethical obligations, legal experts have said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 24th July 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Patients have died after describing their symptoms to a GP in an online form rather than at a face-to-face consultation, the NHS’s safety investigations body has revealed.’
The Guardian, 25th July 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Today, the Law Commission has published a scoping paper looking into how Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) can be characterised and how the law of England and Wales might accommodate them now and in the future. The paper seeks to identify current issues around DAOs to inform any future law reform or innovations.’
Law Commission, 11th July 2024
Source: lawcom.gov.uk
‘Largely thanks to the prime-time ITV dramatization, the Post Office Horizon scandal has brought to light the serious shortcomings in the way the Post Office handled the private prosecution of sub-postmasters. Whilst this has shocked the nation, unfortunately the actions of the Post Office in its role as prosecutor comes as no surprise for those with experience of public prosecutors.’
Mills & Reeve, 26th June 2024
Source: www.mills-reeve.com
‘More than 200,000 people have wrongly faced investigation for housing benefit fraud and error after the performance of a government algorithm fell far short of expectations, the Guardian can reveal.’
The Guardian, 23rd June 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘For the first time, by way of the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act (“the Act”), Parliament has legislated to quash criminal convictions. In this post I will argue that, no matter how understandable, indeed laudable, the intention behind this legislation, in its haste to offer a speedy and comprehensive correction to mass injustice, Parliament has crossed a constitutional line and ventured into territory that is properly the preserve of the courts.’
UK Constitutional Law Association , 3rd June 2024
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Police are planning to deploy 80 detectives for their criminal inquiry into the Post Office scandal, the Guardian has learned, but victims will face a long wait to discover if charges will follow.’
The Guardian, 27th May 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
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