All articles by Michael Cross – Page 78
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NewsBrexit: solicitors welcome 'breathing space' deal
Phase 1 agreement stresses need for legal clarity - including mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments.
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NewsRights body endorses UK prisoner voting plan
Council of Europe says measures sufficient given ‘wide margin of appreciation in this area’.
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NewsIndependent body to tackle administrative justice 'Cinderella'
Reform and human rights group to host secretariat of new Administrative Justice Council.
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NewsCrumbling courts: £5m available to fix lifts and leaks, says lord chief
Fund to be spent on ‘minor but irritating’ faults by end of financial year, new head of judiciary reveals.
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NewsLand Registry opens way for compare the conveyancer
Five-year business strategy promises to work with digital start-ups in the 'proptech' industry.
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NewsJudges will need to learn about computer code to handle disputes, Vos predicts
Chancellor of the High Court enthuses about artificial intelligence - and the need to understand blockchain.
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NewsLow-cost arbitration to head off press regulation
£100 fee and capped costs will be Leveson-compliant, independent regulator says.
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NewsLondon civil claim lodged against Weinstein
Fieldfisher lawyer says she ‘would not be surprised’ if a group action against film producer follows.
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NewsCorruption threat to judicial independence
Transparency key to avoiding politicisation, UN rapporteur tells Law Society event.
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NewsMladic life sentence hailed as historic step
Tribunal finds Bosnian Serb Army commander convicted on four counts including genocide.
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NewsGovernment heads off Brexit human rights rebellion
Commitment to pan-European standards remains undimmed, justice minister tells parliament.
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NewsFormer partner Simon Speirs dies in round-the-world race
Experienced yachtsman dies at 60 after falling overboard during headsail change in Southern Ocean.
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FeatureBlockchain: a numbers game
Blockchain is a very good horse to bet on – we just don’t yet know in which race
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Opinion
Robots will be biased: live with it
Calls for strict regulation of artificial intelligence algorithms are at best premature.
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NewsNews focus: Don't blow a fuse over online civil court
Wary of previous IT fiascos, Whitehall has adopted an agile approach to building the online civil court envisaged by Lord Justice Briggs as part of a £1bn reform programme
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NewsBarristers best placed for ‘gig economy’ shift, says young bar chief
Tech-savvy barristers are ideally placed to take advantage of the so-called ‘gig economy’.
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NewsSolicitor jailed for 10 years for eco-investment tax scam
Rodney Whiston-Dew ’simply motivated by a desire to become extremely rich and to evade tax’.
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NewsBar Conference: We don't accept your constraints, chair tells government
Andrew Langdon QC says treatment of profession ’borders on contempt’.