Ken Tombs reflects on the Law Society’s foresight report on the future of agentic AI and compares it against practitioner and ...

In WebGroup Czech Republic & NKL Associates (C 188/24) and Coyote System (C 190/24), the Court of Justice of the EU issued a ruling which addresses two politically sensitive issues: age verification ...

The Cloud Legal Project at Queen Mary University of London has recently undertaken a detailed survey of 20 standard contracts for chat-based generative AI services from 13 leading providers. In scope ...

SCL has previously reported on examples of lawyers in the USA using AI to generate case references for court proceedings, and then discovering that the AI had “hallucinated” the cases, which didn’t ...

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Camilo Artiga-Purcell, General Counsel at Kiteworks, identifies some of the ever-increasing risks and potential consequences of rushing to use AI in legal practice Picture a partner at a leading UK ...

Mark Ryan and Tom Sweet of SES Secure trace the evolution of software escrow and the impact of AI on its use As many readers will know, software escrow is a risk mitigation tool that safeguards the ...

The Ada Lovelace Institute has issued a new report called Examining the Black Box: Tools for Assessing Algorithmic Systems. It clarifies the terms around algorithmic audits and impact assessments, and ...

Readers will be aware that social media networks are rife with conspiracy theories and misinformation about the origins of the COVID-19 virus and treatments for the disease. Misinformation is not a ...

In an important decision, the Court of Appeal has held in Computer Associates UK Ltd v The Software ...

The High Court has ruled in the case of Smith and others v TalkTalk Telecom Group plc [2022] EWHC 1311 (QB). The claimants issued proceedings against the defendant telecommunications provider TalkTalk ...

Coimisiún na Meán has published a new draft Audiovisual On-Demand Media (Video-on-demand) Service Code and new draft Rules for consultation. These are made under the Irish implementing legislation for ...