The second edition of Tomorrow’s Lawyers, updated from its original 2013 publication, ought to be re-titled ‘I told you so’. Professor Susskind has been writing on the future of the legal profession for the past two decades, gaining the title of legal futurologist along the way. 2015’s ‘The Future of the Professions’ forecast a future…
This is the essay from Lottie Michael which won the SCL Essay Prize for 2017…
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A press release from the Article 29 Working Party may amount to a warning about the long-term stability of the privacy shield….
Graham Smith is one of the speakers at the SCL Conference in the session covering new trends in data interception, use and retention. While this piece from Graham does not reflect his input in that focused session, it is an important contribution to the much-needed debate on Internet freedoms….
What is RegTech? Lorraine Chimbga and Ryan Barnes give the answers and explain why it is having an impact on the financial industry and how it might have an impact on lawyers too….
Laurence Eastham reviews a new book from David J Harvey, Collisions in the Digital Paradigm: Law and Rule Making in the Internet Age (Hart Publishing; 401 pp: ISBN 978-1-50990-652-9)…
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that granting police access to computer files containing child pornography material without prior judicial authorisation, in a non-emergency situation, violated the owner’s right to respect for his private life…
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In an appetiser for one of the sessions at the forthcoming SCL Conference – on AI and machine learning – Matthew Lavy shares some thoughts on machine learning and liability…
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Laurence Eastham comments on the ICO’s strategic plan….
The 11th module in the Foundations of IT Law programme was ‘Renegotiation and Disputes’. The seminar, chaired by James Farrell, a partner in the Disputes Division of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, set out some of the key points that both contentious and non-contentious lawyers should have in mind in relation to disputes in the IT…
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