‘Regulators need to bring down the barriers to technology adoption and innovation in the interests of reducing unmet legal need, the Legal Services Board has said.’
Legal Futures, 12th July 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Post Office’s use of two former senior judges in its defence of the sub-postmaster prosecutions indicates the need for guidance or regulation on what judges do in retirement, it has been argued.’
Legal Futures, 19th June 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Lord Sales, Information Law and Automated Governance.’
Supreme Court, 24th April 2023
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
‘CodeBase and Legal Geek will receive £3 million of government funding to turbocharge the development and use of technology in the legal sector.’
Ministry of Justice, 15th March 2023
Source: www.gov.uk
‘The Law Commission has published advice to Government on how to regulate remote driving on UK roads.’
Law Commission, 20th February 2023
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
‘The UK Cabinet Office has opened a consultation on proposals for new legislation to enable and create a centralised digital ID gateway to online public services.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th January 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Law Commission of England and Wales has launched a Government-commissioned review that aims to provide clarity on how private international law rules can apply to emerging technology, such as digital assets and electronic trade documents.’
Law Commission, 18th October 2022
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
‘The information commissioner has warned companies to steer clear of “emotional analysis” technologies or face fines, because of the “pseudoscientific” nature of the field.’
The Guardian, 25th October 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The three most pressing issues for the legal profession in 2022 are its approach to diversity, the adoption of new technologies, and the need to find ways to add value, the Master of the Rolls has said.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th October 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘UK courts’ software system is accused of unlawful detentions and wrongful arrests, and whistle-blowers say the system is faulty and unsafe.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th September 2022
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘It is “essential” that sub-postmasters claiming on one of the compensation schemes following the Horizon scandal can recover their legal costs, the chair of the Post Office scandal enquiry said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 16th August 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Lawyers of the future could face pressure to augment their “cognitive capacity” through neurotechnology if they want to become partners or meet client demands, a report for the Law Society has speculated.’
Legal Futures, 10th August 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 contains an odd section concerning ‘computer-generated works’. Section 9(2) of the Act states that when a work has no ‘human author’ and is generated by a computer, the work ought to be protected by copyright for 50 years, with the copyright owned by the person who made the necessary ‘arrangements’ for the work’s generation.’
City Law Forum, 29th June 2022
Source: blogs.city.ac.uk
‘Scores of post office operators wrongly accused of embezzlement by the Post Office due to faulty accounting software, may be disqualified from a dedicated compensation scheme.’
The Guardian, 21st June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, gave the CiARB Roebuck lecture on Wednesday (8 June 2022). He set out how an integrated digital justice system can be created using common ‘data standards’ governed by the Online Procedure Rule Committee. The lecture explains how this common and consistent approach.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary , 10th June 2022
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘The work of the new Online Procedure Rules Committee (OPRC) will help connect the whiplash portal and other pre-action regimes to the court system electronically, the deputy head of civil justice has said.’
Legal Futures, 9th June 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, has spoken at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference in York. His lecture was entitled: “The proper place of the law in a digital society”.’
Courts & Tribunals Judiciary, 28th April 2022
Source: www.judiciary.uk
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