With a new initiative announced for the creation of the SCL Barometer, SCL Chair Mark O’Conor seeks input and engagement from SCL members to help make it an effective measure for trends in the tech industry and in the work of tech lawyers…
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, criminal offences that are not particularly serious may justify access to personal data retained by providers of electronic communications services provided that that access does not constitute a serious infringement of privacy…
Laurence Eastham reflects on the SCL Annual Conference 2018, which had keynotes, panels, a conversation and flash talks…
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Rachel Lidgate and Charlie Morgan offer an in-depth look at smart contracts and the teasing challenges which they display…
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In this opinion piece, Ben Taylor explains why he believes that building transparency into AI is critical to the future of automated decision-making platforms in the criminal justice system…
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If Wordsworth was alive, he would no doubt have left Westminster Bridge and attended the SCL Conference. But, in his unavoidable absence, his muse descended on Holly Pearsall and she gave her flash talk at the Conference in verse. Here is her much discussed, and widely praised, poem in full. It needs to be read aloud to get full value….
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Mehmet Karakoc and Edward Williams give an overview of widely-used delay analysis methodologies in engineering projects….
Mark Lumley on why becoming an SCL Mentor would be good for the Society, good for society and good for you….
Gerald Brent reports on a meeting of the SCL KM Group on 11 September 2018…
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Peter Leonard asks ‘who’s in charge here?’ and whether we are equipped to stay in charge…
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