Editor’s Note: Britain just turned its AI ambitions into a spending commitment. On the opening day of London Tech Week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a lineup of global technology firms pledged billions toward sovereign compute, domestic data centers and
Scanning Thousands of Faces Without Consent Is Lawful If Policy Is Structured and Proportionate: UK High Court Upholds Metropolitan Police Live Facial Recognition Policy
UK High Court of Justice: The present case concerned a challenge to the legality of Metropolitan Police Service’s policy, entitled “MPS Overt LFR Policy Document” (the Policy), in relation to the deployment in London of live facial recognition technology (LFR).
Mediation emerging as preferred ADR mode amid growing procedural challenges in arbitration: CJI Surya Kant
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant has observed that mediation is increasingly emerging as the preferred mode of commercial dispute resolution, while arbitration is gradually becoming burdened with procedural complexities that often undermine the efficiency it was originally intended
Schultz on Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge
Thomas Schultz, King’s College London, University of Geneva, has published Acts of Truth: Emotions and the Validation of Legal Knowledge. Here is the abstract.
Legal scholarship presents itself as an exercise in reason: the scholar elucidates, weighs the sources, follows
Dorsey Takes London: Highlights from the INTA Annual Meeting
The Dorsey Trademark, Copyright + Advertising team and the IP Litigation team attended the 2026 International Trademark Association Annual Meeting in London. The Dorsey team was represented by seventeen attorneys from Dorsey’s Minneapolis, Denver, Seattle, Dallas, New York, London, Hong
Law in Real Life – Meet Your Dean: The Person Behind your Programme
Welcome to Law in Real Life, a podcast series from Undergraduate Laws at the University of London exploring the people, experiences, and opportunities that shape legal education beyond textbooks, exams, and courtrooms.
In this special episode, Meet Your
‘If This Industry Wobbles, It Is Not a Contract in Dispute — It Is a Systemic Event’: Inside the Emerging World of Data Centre Disputes at LIDW 2026
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At a member-hosted event by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) during London International
‘Adapt or Die’: Master of the Rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos Urges Legal Profession to Embrace AI and Reform Dispute Resolution at LIDW 2026
Delivering the concluding address at London International Disputes Week (LIDW) 2026, Master of the Rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos urged the international legal community to embrace technological change, warning that lawyers, judges, arbitrators and dispute resolution institutions must “adapt or die”
‘The Last 25 Years Will Be Nothing Compared to the Next 25’: Experts Debate Tradition and Transformation in Dispute Resolution at LIDW 2026
Following the great insights provided by Ms. Clare Wardle, LIDW 2026 hosted a panel discussion titled “Access to Justice Internationally – Tradition and Transformation” to talk about comparative perspectives from several key jurisdictions. The discussion explored how legal systems are
Five great reads on cyber, data, and legal discovery for May 2026
Editor’s Note: May was the month the rulebooks caught up with the technology — and then bent under it. In Dublin, forensic examiners conceded that proving a recording is intact no longer proves it is real, as deepfake fraud turned