THIS ISSUE
The fight to defend human rights may not be over, says Geoffrey Bindman QC
The Supreme Court is ten years old this month, and will be marking the occasion with an Open Day on 16 October
The Sentencing Council is consulting on a range of draft guidelines for possessing, carrying, making or transferring firearms
There’s nothing new about playing politics with the public’s real or perceived concerns about crime, says Jon Robins
Despite the recent legislative void, Ferdy Lovett predicts increased activity ahead
This month, Ian Smith runs with some classic arguments on worker status & gives a nod to national stereotypes
Parliament has been suspended again as a weakened Prime Minister contends with the rejection of his Brexit deal proposals and a fast-brewing scandal over alleged impropriety during his time as London Mayor.
Brexit is not divorce writ large but there are some parallels when it comes to brinkmanship & punishment, says Graeme Fraser
What are the key differences between the approaches to setting the discount rate in Scotland & in England and Wales? Julian Chamberlayne explains
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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