THIS ISSUE
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
Masood Ahmed & Dr Lal Akhter unscramble a case of suppliers, hens & the Lion Code
Case study with Dr Russell Keenan, Director of the Expert Witness Gateway
Stephan Pastor and Coralie Trudon on how Monaco is emerging as a niche hub for complex M&A and strategic cross-border transactions
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
When AI gets it wrong, who is responsible for defamation? Hanna Basha & Jamie Hurworth consider where liability may lie
Less shame from HMRC; Avoid planning fees hike; Email power to unions; Housing associations to tell more.
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Richard Susskind revisited. Ian McDougall shares his reflections on The Future of Law at 30
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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