My predictions for 2016 are:
• The UK Supreme Court will give further judgments emphasising the words used in contracts, applied to other contractual clauses.
• The courts will expand the duty of good faith in outsourcing contracts.
• A high profile company will be caught carrying out a cyber-attack on another.
• The EU will finalise and pass the new Data Protection Regulation, and it will make almost no changes from the Directive.
• Disputes arising out of SIAM-based multi-sourcing models will feature in court.
• An AI (artificial intelligence) system will draft a major contract.
{b}Gideon Shirazi is a barrister at 4 Pump Court, Temple, London{/b}
