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09 October 2014
Issue: 7625 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Space detectives

Lift off for the world’s first “space detective agency”!

The company, Air and Space Evidence, will provide an unprecedented service offering data from Earth Observation technologies to be used as evidence in legal and insurance cases. It will specialise in providing photographic, Earth observation and radar based imagery from satellites, unmanned aerial systems and aircraft as evidence in legal or insurance cases.

It is run by Ray Harris, Professor of Geography at University College London (UCL), Ray Purdy, visiting senior research fellow at the Faculty of Laws, UCL, and Peter Hjerp, Institute of European Environmental Policy associate.

Issue: 7625 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DAC Beachcroft—Paul Brehony

DAC Beachcroft—Paul Brehony

Commercial disputes practice expands with partner hire in London

Ward Hadaway—Maria Coster

Ward Hadaway—Maria Coster

Partner appointed to lead family and matrimonial department in Leeds

Slater Heelis—Helen Marsh

Slater Heelis—Helen Marsh

Commercial property team expands in Manchester with partner appointment

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A range of options beyond burial, cremation and burial at sea could become legally available, under Law Commission recommendations
Artificial intelligence (AI) legal assistants will be deployed to cut delays in the Crown Court, ministers have announced
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