Legal News

It is possible to obtain a UK patent for an artificial intelligence (AI) machine which uses artificial neural networks (ANNs), the Supreme Court has held

The current state of geopolitics is so volatile it is ‘fundamentally reshaping’ the role of general counsel, according to a report by a global network of law firms

The High Court has clarified how winding-up petitions must be served, in a decision with implications for 30,000 UK businesses using the Companies House default address for official mail

The ‘statutory remit’ of super-regulator the Legal Services Board (LSB) is to come under scrutiny in a government review

There is ‘an overwhelming operational case for a new civil justice centre in Cardiff,’ Baroness Carr, the Lady Chief Justice, has told MPs

A magistrate who phoned into a live LBC radio programme has been issued with a formal warning for misconduct

The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) is looking for 55 employment tribunal judges and 64 circuit judges

Society needs to consider ‘urgently’ how to ‘preserve the fundamentals of justice for humans’ in the ‘machine age’ of artificial intelligence (AI), the Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos has warned

Judging is ‘more intellectually demanding than any other role in public life’—and far messier than outsiders imagine. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC reflects on decades spent wrestling with unclear legislation, fragile precedent and human fallibility

The long-predicted death of the billable hour may finally be here—and this time, it’s armed with a scythe. In a sweeping critique of time-based billing, Ian McDougall, president of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation, argues in this week's NLJ that artificial intelligence has made hourly charging ‘intellectually, commercially and ethically indefensible’