Ken Tombs reflects on the Law Society’s foresight report on the future of agentic AI and compares it against practitioner and international perspectives (as at June 2026) 1. Introduction The Law ...

The Cloud Legal Project at Queen Mary University of London has recently undertaken a detailed survey of 20 standard contracts for chat-based generative AI services from 13 leading providers. In scope ...

Amanda Chaboryk and a team from Epiq highlight the opportunities for AI use in collective actions The UK’s collective actions ...

SCL has previously reported on examples of lawyers in the USA using AI to generate case references for court proceedings, and then discovering that the AI had “hallucinated” the cases, which didn’t ...

Camilo Artiga-Purcell, General Counsel at Kiteworks, identifies some of the ever-increasing risks and potential consequences of rushing to use AI in legal practice Picture a partner at a leading UK ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has played an increasingly prominent role within legal, starting as early as the 90’s, when legal databases started incorporating natural language processing to optimise ...

Readers will be aware that social media networks are rife with conspiracy theories and misinformation about the origins of the COVID-19 virus and treatments for the disease. Misinformation is not a ...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published its annual report for 2024-25 setting outs its achievements and activities in the past year. The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers ...

In May 2021, the Home Secretary announced a review of the Act and carried out a consultation in early 2023, which considered: a new power for law enforcement agencies to take control of domains and IP ...

The Ada Lovelace Institute has issued a new report called Examining the Black Box: Tools for Assessing Algorithmic Systems. It clarifies the terms around algorithmic audits and impact assessments, and ...

Manufacturer The Clorox Company (Clorox) recently filed a USD 380 million lawsuit against Cognizant, its IT services provider, in the wake of the 2023 cyberattack that caused major disruptions to its ...

The SCL AI Group are delighted to announce the launch of their Artificial Intelligence Contractual Clauses document. The development and use of AI will increase significantly over the next few years.