When AI Lies: Liability For Incorrect Or Unintended Legal Advice In The Age Of Legora And Harvey AI

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  By Nicholas Blomfield A corporate legal team uses an AI platform such as Legora to analyse contractual risk ahead of a transaction. The output is structured, confident, and commercially framed. It concludes that a particular regulatory approval is not required. Completion proceeds. The conclusion is incorrect. The approval was required and as a result, client losses follow. No external counsel was instructed on the point. No individual lawyer expressly advised or reviewed it. The output was generated purely by an AI system...

Litigation Funding, PACCAR, and the Battle for Access to Justice

In the context of English law, few technicalities have threatened to derail the machinery of justice as profoundly as the Supreme Court’s decision in R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others...

Inside a Murder Trial: Reflections from a Mini-Pupil

  By Jack Woolcombe I was born in April 2003. He was born in May 2003. I was sitting behind his junior counsel at the Old Bailey as a mini-pupil at Red Lion Chambers, watching him face a charge of murder. Mini-pupillages...

Developments in the public interest defence in defamation

The impact of the rapid development of the digital technology on data usage and its distribution has become one of the central topics of discussion in modern society. Media has evolved to become...

Cognitive Bias: Forensic Science  

Dr David Schudel forensic chemist at Keith Borer Consultants. According to the Oxford English dictionary, “bias” has several meanings, including: “to influence, affect (often unduly and unfairly)”. No one likes to think of themselves behaving...

Time to ratify the safety convention, says Bar Council 

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  The Bar Council is calling on the UK Government to ratify the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer (the Luxembourg Treaty) on the anniversary of its launch. The convention is an international instrument dedicated to protecting the freedom and independence of the global legal profession, and it aims to strengthen the ability of lawyers to carry out their professional duties free from threats, attack, interference or reprisals. The UK was one of 17 countries that signed the convention last year and 29 states have now endorsed the instrument. Ratification would help to strengthen the UK’s ability to advocate for international standards and would align the Government's...

Time to ratify the safety convention, says Bar Council 

  The Bar Council is calling on the UK Government to ratify the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer...

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In my job as an extradition defence barrister I deal with clients who have been arrested because they are sought by another jurisdiction to stand trial or serve a sentence for offences they have committed there. These offences may...

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Chambers are a feature of the English legal landscape which have few parallels in other countries. There are just over 400 Chambers, which come in various different shapes and sizes. There are the mega-sets which are large, which commodify the work of many of their barristers, and which often charge lower fees and have lower overheads. Being a barrister at one of those sets can feel like being a cog in a machine, with strategy and career development being...

Bar Council statement on contempt of court 

Barrister Rajiv Menon KC has won an appeal on an important point of lack of jurisdiction. In a ruling on Tuesday, the Court of Appeal stopped Menon's forthcoming case, saying there was no jurisdiction...

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Time to ratify the safety convention, says Bar Council 

  The Bar Council is calling on the UK Government to ratify the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer...

When AI Lies: Liability For Incorrect Or Unintended Legal Advice In The Age Of Legora And Harvey AI

  By Nicholas Blomfield A corporate legal team uses an AI platform such as Legora to analyse contractual risk ahead of a transaction. The output is...

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Bar Council statement on contempt of court 

Barrister Rajiv Menon KC has won an appeal on an important point of lack of jurisdiction. In a ruling on Tuesday, the Court of Appeal...
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