The election nears. The Prime Minister publicly stakes his re-election prospects on his government’s ability to make its the flagship “Rwanda” policy operational (or else threatens to leave that the Strasbourg court if it blocks it). Barely a day goes by when the “small boats crisis” and the litigation to which the expensive Rwanda scheme has given rise is not covered by the press and broadcast media. Continue reading
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A short update on artificial intelligence as it relates to lawyers right now. Chat GPT can now identify relevant cases when asked questions about the law. Continue reading
The newspapers are once again replete with Boris Johnson’s private life. Last weekend he rowed loudly with his girlfriend. Neighbours overheard. She shouted “get off me”, “get out of my flat”, “you’re spoilt”, “you have no care for money or anything”. He shouted “get off my f***ing laptop”. Continue reading
Last month the Commons DCMS Committee on Disinformation and Fake News [pdf] recommended a new regulator for tech companies and an enhanced role for the ICO, paid for by a levy on tech giants. Continue reading
Within a week of one another came two reports on the future of journalism in an age of big tech: The Cairncross Review (on 12 Feb) and The Commons DCMS Committee Final Report into Fake News and Disinformation (14 Feb – but with its excoriating criticism of Facebook, anything but a Valentine to Mark Zuckerberg). Continue reading
The final report of the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Disinformation and Fake News [pdf] was published on 18 February 2019. It is the product of an 18 month process – far in excess of the normal timeframe for Select Committee inquiries, involving 170 written submissions and 73 oral witnesses. Continue reading
In a judgment delivered on 22 February 2018 in the case of Ali v Channel 5 Broadcast ([2018] EWHC 298 (Ch)) Arnold J ordered Channel 5 to pay £20,000 in damages for misuse of private information to a couple, Shakir Ali and Shahida Aslam, who had fallen into rent arears. Continue reading
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) recently announced that it would no longer publish on its website the detail of charges brought against its members in advance of disciplinary hearings. Continue reading
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