The conversation around ketamine has stepped up a gear in the past couple of years, with UK regulators put under pressure by campaigners to move the classification of this substance from Class B to Class A. While this hasn’t happened yet, its proliferation as a Gen Z party drug and the negative health outcomes associated […]
Digital transformation has made life so much simpler for everyone on the planet, and there’s not a facet of modern life that isn’t improved in some way by technology designed to help us escape our centuries-long reliance on physical paperwork. Despite this, legal document verification doesn’t always keep pace with progress in other industries and […]
Lucy Connolly, sentenced to 31 months in October 2024 for stirring up racial hatred, claims she was a “political prisoner”. Read the Sentencing Remarks of His Honour Judge Melbourne Inman KC Recorder of Birmingham and be your own judge. 1. Lucy Connolly you have pleaded guilty to the offence of distributing material with the intention […]
“People … prefer stories that affirm their views of themselves, and of others, and of the world around them. The challenge for those who want to place the discussion of law and policy (and other things) on a sounder basis is to find ways to make people care about the actualité of the case rather than the […]
Reposted from the Internet for Lawyers Newsletter: In 2022, Twitter peaked at 368 million active users. It was the platform of choice for journalists, politicos and commentators across most disciplines, enabling users to curate their own news feeds and engage in informed debate, without significant interference from advertising or unwanted attention. Twitter was not, by some […]
On scl.org: Digital Assets: What is the Law Commission considering?Simon Deane-Johns summarises the Law Commission’s recent consultation on digital assets – “a veritable textbook on the English law of personal property” – and gives a personal angle on some of the proposals put forward. On law.com: DoNotPay Slapped With California Class Action for Unlawful Practice […]
My piece about new Case Law service from the The National Archives.
There’s a buzz currently around Web3. “What’s that?”, you ask. You’ve doubtless heard of cryptocurrencies and perhaps now also about blockchain and NFTs. These are all part of the same picture, but how do they relate to each other and where will they lead us? The 1-2-3 of the web on the Internet Newsletter for […]
I have been writing about the internet for lawyers since 1995 when it first entered the public consciousness and the first few legal websites were born. These early writings, and many since, are published here Binary Law. In 2007 I joined Delia Venables editing the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, launching the Newsletter online on infolaw. A […]
Since the beginning of the “information revolution” there has built up a tension between the rights of the owners of information and other intellectual property and the practical ability and desire of others to exploit that property using the developing technologies. This tension heightened considerably with the popularisation of the internet and the web as […]
In the late 90s as there was a thirst for guidance on what this new thing called the internet was and what it could offer the lawyer. Today we all take the internet for granted and few concern ourselves with what it actually is, even fewer how it works. In fact a 2019 survey by […]
FutureLearn FutureLearn provide structured online learning courses in partnership with hundreds of universities and other bodies. These cover all subject areas and range from short courses, through professional accreditation programmes, to university degrees. Courses are divided into “weeks” of prescribed activities. You can learn by watching videos, listening to audio and reading articles. Many of […]
Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust The House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies has produced an important Report which focuses on a crisis “with roots that extend far deeper, and are likely to last far longer than Covid-19.” This virus, that affects us all, is the pandemic of misinformation and […]
See You Out Of Court See You Out of Court at buzzsprout.com/815344 is a new podcast focusing on new ways to resolve disputes without burning vast amounts of money through the courts. The podcast will inform you of all the options to resolve disputes without going to court, whether mediation, arbitration, adjudication, ombudsmen schemes and, importantly, […]
In the last issue of Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, I reviewed Richard Susskind’s Online Courts and the Future of Justice: Four years on and Professor Richard Susskind has written the same book he wrote last time, so he says. He jests, yet again. The message and the underlying arguments remain constant; the same analogies are […]
