Peers heard evidence this week on the consequences for civil justice cooperation of the loss, post-Brexit, of the European Court of Justice jurisdiction. The House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee heard evidence on legal, regulatory and jurisdictional uncertainties following Brexit. Evidence on behalf of the Law Society was given by David Greene, partner at Edwin Coe, who is acting for Deir Dos Santos, applicant in the Art 50 case before the Supreme Court, and Helena Raulus of the Law Society. The Bar Council was represented by Hugh Mercer, Essex Court, and Timothy Scott QC, 29 Bedford Row.
12 January 2017
Brexit uncertainties
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston
Harneys senior leadership appointments
Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan
Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires
Anthony Collins—Laura Moss
Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector
NEWS
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
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