28 Feb, 2024 Access all areas? Proposed changes to non-party access to court documents By Fred Snowball Concobhar Jolliffe-Grimes The Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) has launched a consultation on expanding the types of document that non-parties can obtain from...
12 Feb, 2024 Fake cases and real consequences: the risks of relying on AI in litigation By Jackelyn West Oliver Jeffcott Blaise Kingan The recent case of Harber v HMRC in the First-tier Tax Tribunal (the FTT) has resulted in considerably more commentary over the last...
31 Jan, 2024 An overview of legal finance in England and Wales By Malcolm Hitching Ross Mullen On Monday 22 January, Burford Capital hosted a webinar on legal finance in England and Wales, which Macfarlanes was pleased to join. The...
09 Nov, 2023 Innovation and technology in private credit By Adam Caines Oliver Jeffcott An interesting panel session at this year’s ACC Summit in Banking Hall, featuring participants from Arcmont and Metrics, centred on how...
19 Jul, 2023 Opening up AI: have the front-runners met(a) their match? By Markos Day Meta is set to become the latest tech giant to try and grab its piece of the artificial intelligence (AI) pie through its reported...
06 Jul, 2023 Approaching AI in the legal sector: Law Society response to Government AI whitepaper By Christopher Tart-Roberts As organisations and individuals consider how best to leverage AI and establish appropriate governance guardrails in their own contexts,...
17 Apr, 2023 Can AI be the inventor of a patent? By Alishea Patel Martha Campbell Advances in AI technologies are increasingly leading to the creation of new works with minimal human input, raising questions on the...
05 Apr, 2023 What does a pro-innovation approach to AI mean for UK regulation? By Klaudija Brami Ben Rana On the 29th of March 2023 the UK Government released the much-anticipated white paper detailing how the UK will regulate AI. As expected,...
20 Feb, 2023 Generative AI’s copyright conundrum By Mark Cusack AI tools which produce realistic content have burst onto the scene over the past 12 months. From the images generated by OpenAI’s DALL-E...
17 Jan, 2023 Cyber security recognised on World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report By Martha Campbell Tech risks, including cybercrime and digital inequality, have featured among the top long-term global risks identified in the World...
24 Jan, 2020 Real intelligence on artificial intelligence By Mark Cusack The European Parliament has voted in favour of a resolution which will require the European Commission to answer questions relating to...
23 Jan, 2020 European Commission faces off against facial recognition technology By Mark Cusack Following the leak of a draft European Commission white paper, it has been reported that the Commission is considering implementing a...
30 May, 2019 Watch this space: loan markets embrace new technology By Jamie Macpherson The Loan Market Association's (LMA's) inaugural FinTech Conference provided us with an opportunity to reflect on increasing interest in...
24 Apr, 2019 AI ethics and governance: the challenge of balance and bias By Rosie Duckworth That artificial intelligence should be deployed and developed within robust ethical frameworks has become a truth almost universally...
22 Jan, 2019 Will AI soon be preparing your annual reports? By Richard Burrows Alex Edmondson Dominic Sedghi The Financial Reporting Council’s Financial Reporting Lab has published the latest in its series of technology deep-dive reports,...