‘A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting’ – take it 3 times a day and finish the course
Charles Drayson reviews the fourth edition of this well respected work and adds a few pithy observations on the state of IT contract drafting…
Technology, Society & Justice
SCL Event Report: Sextech, Porn and the Law
Lorraine Chimbga reflects on a thought-provoking session which explored the issues surrounding sextech and which raised fundamental questions about the type of society we are moulding….
AI Report: Good Vision but Hard Questions Remain
Sue McLean thinks a new government AI report outlines a positive vision, but leaves some key questions unanswered…
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Driverless Vehicles and Collaboration in Cyber-security
Stuart Young believes that cyber-security must jostle for pole in the race for a successful driverless future and that collaboration is key…
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NIS Directive Consultation: Help Formulate the SCL Response
SCL Chair Mark O’Conor calls for involvement from SCL members in the consultation on implementation of the NIS Directive…
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Editorial August/September
In an issue dominated by reflections of the stellar June SCL Conference and July’s wonderful Online Courts Hackathon, Laurence Eastham chooses to moan about government incompetence in dealing with the GDPR….
Valuing “Value Add” – An invitation to participate in a discussion on research by the Knowledge Management Group – 5 July 2017
James Holyday, Knowledge Advisor at Linklaters LLP and Chair of the SCL KM Group, summarises the Group’s recent Valuing “Value Add” event…
China as the Next Leader in Legal Technology?
Following his recent trip to China, Richard Susskind reflects on the pace of change on legal technology there, sensing a swing of the pendulum and assessing the implications that may have for the legal landscape in the UK and beyond…
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Online Courts Hackathon: the IT Group Experience
Aaron Pickett looks back on the time when the IT Group developers took on the 24-hour Online Courts Hackathon challenge…
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Collaboration at the Online Courts Hackathon: We Need to Talk about CoLin
A joint team from Wavelength Law and the Law Society of England and Wales won the Online Courts Hackathon on 2 July with their slick ‘pathfinder’ technology and voice interaction with COLIN (the Courts OnLINe help agent). Laurence Eastham asked Drew Winlaw and Ben Gardner from Wavelength and Sophia Adams Bhatti from the Law Society for their thoughts about the experience, the collaboration and the future uses of the hackathon’s ideas….
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