All articles by Michael Cross – Page 63
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NewsTop-50 firm in international merger
Thomas Cooper deal gives Penningtons Manches access to international arbitration hubs.
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NewsSC dismisses newspapers' 'serious harm' libel appeal
Landmark ruling backs High Court's interpretation of 2013 Defamation Act.
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NewsOnline courts legislation 'intentionally broad' - justice minister
Paper channel 'will remain open' in online era, Lord Keen of Elie tells peers - but no need to put that in law.
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NewsLaw Society joins international protest over Hong Kong extradition law
Open letter to government says new measures could enable Beijing to extradite human rights defenders.
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NewsNews focus: Data dangers?
A Harm Assessment Risk Tool used by the police to cut reoffending rates is at the heart of an increasingly heated debate surrounding the role of algorithms in the criminal justice system.
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NewsJohnson prosecution quashed by High Court
High Court judges grant application by Conservative leadership front-runner to dismiss private prosecution.
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NewsIran jails defence lawyer for 30 years in latest attack on profession
Rights group says Amirsalar Davoudi has become the third defence attorney to be sent to prison in Iran in less than a year.
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NewsLord chancellor finds £2m for technology
Funding ’will help support emerging lawtech in the UK and wider economic growth’, David Gauke tells conference.
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NewsJustice algorithms 'need urgent oversight' - Society
Report of year-long Law Society investigation backs use of key component of artificial intelligence - with legal safeguards.
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NewsCity's 'sounding board' is latest lawtech initiative
Corporation to gather views on how to increase adoption of legal technology.
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NewsNews focus: tech challenge aiming high
The SRA is offering lawtech innovators £250,000 to help improve access to legal advice. But is technology the solution to this problem and has the regulator truly understood the issues involved?
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NewsSRA-backed scheme offers £50,000 for lawtech innovators
Bids invited for ideas about how to make legal advice 'more affordable and accessible'.
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NewsCompanies House could require identity checks in transparency reform
Consultation document proposes what is claimed to be the biggest change since the Register of Companies was created.
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NewsCrown court to hear crowdfunded prosecution of Johnson
District judge grants application for summons over three alleged offences of misconduct in public office.
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NewsUniversity and law firms team up to develop lawtech standard
University of Manchester’s law and technology initiative now has six legal services members.
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OpinionNo lifejacket under your seat: 100 years of aviation law
The year 1919 marked the debut of intercontinental flying - and of solutions to the legal challenges it presented.
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NewsRegulators should 'incentivise' lawtech - consumer panel
Incentives should be part of a ‘robust regulatory framework’. Says regulator.
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News'Bullying' libel judge's dismissal of claim reversed on appeal
High Court judge ‘cast off the mantle of impartiality’ and used ‘threatening’ and ‘overbearing’ language, CoA ruling finds.
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NewsSnooping tribunal subject to judicial review, Supreme Court rules
Majority of justices decide that Investigatory Powers Tribunals decisions can come into the High Court’s purview.
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NewsAppeal throws out Post Office bid to replace judge
Recusal application ’never had any substance and was rightly rejected’, Coulson LJ rules.