Web scraping is something enigmatic in the public’s eye. It’s not entirely surprising - every innovative solution takes some time before it’s understood and accepted. Generally, widespread acceptance closely follows…
By Joe Ferguson, family law solicitor at JMW Solicitors, a top-100 law firm with a specialist digital assets offering for commercial and individual clients. Clients are often alive to the…
On 10 June 2022, the Law Commission published an options paper for the Government on how it can improve the law to ensure that corporations are effectively held to account…
John Binns, partner in the financial crime team at BCL Solicitors LLP analyses the broad range of law enforcement powers available to tackle suspected money launderers, terrorist financiers and their…
Challenging the reliability of AI and other complex multi-connected intelligent computer systems will become of fundamental importance as businesses and society move rapidly towards a software-dominated, algorithm-governed future. Increasingly ubiquitous…
Special Guardianship is a legal status introduced by the Adoption and Children Act 2002. A Special Guardianship Order fits broadly between a Child Arrangements Order and an Adoption Order…
A controversy blew up last week about whether the Government had sought, or should have sought, comprehensive advice about the “legality” of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill from Sir James…
The legal sector is a constantly changing landscape. We all know that the sector has seen some seismic shifts since the introduction of the Legal Services Act 2007 which set…
After keeping trains running to and from besieged towns and distributing humanitarian aid despite great personal risk, few would doubt the courage of the drivers of Ukrainian Railways since the…
I last wrote here for the Easter term of The Barrister in 2018 and honestly, where has the time gone? Considering all the troubles over the last two years though,…
Watch here, via YouTube (unlisted) Download here, via WeTransfer LONDON, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Singaporean officials have scheduled the execution of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, an intellectually disabled Malaysian man sentenced to death in 2011…
In this article, Andrew Thornton Q.C. looks at the emergence of digital platforms offering legal services to SMEs and individuals and considers how the Bar might exploit the opportunities they…
