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03 December 2021
Issue: 7959 / Categories: Legal News , Cyber
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NLJ this week: Cyber law forecast

What does the coming year hold for cyber law? In an NLJ special, seven members of 36 Commercial share their expert reflections and predictions on this most salient area of development. As Dean Armstrong QC notes, the practice of cyber law is ‘quite simply, fascinating’.

The insights cover data protection, data breach, ransomware attacks, cyber insurance, artificial intelligence, regulation of cryptoassets and blockchain. Paul Schwartfeger explains how ‘the simplicity [blockchain] promises also looks likely to provide fertile ground for lawyers’. Racheal Muldoon predicts FCA guidance on cryptoassets in 2022. Celso de Azevedo relays alarming insurer predictions of rate adjustments of up to 100%. 

Issue: 7959 / Categories: Legal News , Cyber
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Womble Bond Dickinson—Paula Myers

Womble Bond Dickinson—Paula Myers

Womble Bond Dickinson appoints Paula Myers to private capital team in Leeds

mfg Solicitors—five promotions

mfg Solicitors—five promotions

Law firm mfg Solicitors announces five promotions at Birmingham office

Brabners—six promotions

Brabners—six promotions

Brabners adds six to partnership in record year for partner promotions

NEWS

Family set expands with the formal integration of 4 Brick Court into 42BR Barristers

The Court of Appeal has issued a stern warning to lawyers engaging in the practice of ‘privilege hunting’—obtaining an opponent’s legally privileged information through dishonest means
Legal executives have given a lukewarm reception to the Legal Services Board’s (LSB’s) final report from its regulatory review into Mazur advice and guidance
A homeless single parent offered accommodation in Derby has lost her Supreme Court appeal against the London council making the offer
The Kingdom of Bahrain does not enjoy sovereign immunity from allegations it used surveillance software to spy on dissidents in the UK, the Supreme Court has held
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