New legislation is needed to regulate the use of artificial intelligence, a parliamentary committee recommends today. The joint committee on human rights says the law should prohibit the development and provision of very powerful AI systems known as artificial general
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A voice for victims?
Victims of crime would have a greater say in whether a prosecution is in the public interest under a new charging code to be issued for consultation by the Crown Prosecution Service today.The current edition of the Code for Crown
Employment judge unemployed
An employment judge who engaged in inappropriate sexualised behaviour towards multiple female staff members over an extended period would have lost his job if he had not retired from office. The former judge, named by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office
Briggs supreme
Congratulations to Lord Briggs of Westbourne, 71, who is to become the next president of the UK Supreme Court. The appointment was made by the King on the advice of the prime minister and the lord chancellor, following the recommendation
Impermissible donations
A barrister who worked on the undercover investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising activities broadcast last week on Channel 4 News has said that legislation on political party funding needs to be strengthened. Gavin Millar KC, who advised a team
Take risks, ministers told
Andy Burnham’s attorney general Ellie Reeves KC MP has scrapped risk-averse legal guidance issued by her predecessor Lord Hermer KC, according to a report in today’s Times.Newly introduced guidance is understood to tell government lawyers: “Wherever there is at
9/11 and the justices
As the world begins to mark the 25th anniversary this week of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, the UK’s most senior judges are preparing to deal with a claim that the collapse of the
Custody chaos
Independent monitors at a new privately-run prison near York had to walk around the prison in pairs for their own safety, they say in a report just published. Members of monitoring boards are allowed full access to all parts of
Mayor scammed
The mayor of London was the victim of a scam after he was convicted and fined for not taxing a 24-year-old Nissan Micra. In response, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has said his conviction will be annulled today. But
Right to life
Two new reports on bills currently before parliament take very different approaches to human rights. One report commends article 2 of the human rights convention for offering a measure of justice to families of those who died in the Hillsborough