The SRA's first dedicated AI warning notice brings supervisors, COLPs and firm governance into scope, and treats client material entered into public AI tools as a permanent risk to privilege.
The Upper Tribunal warns uploading confidential documents to open-source AI tools waives privilege, three solicitors win £75,000 Innovate UK awards, and an Odgers report examines why lawyers rarely…
Junior lawyer roles are changing faster than headcount is. Around seven in ten law firm leaders expect significant change from AI, and the real risk is a thinner…
The HMCTS court data licence caps four high-risk uses, including anticipating legal decisions for a client, at a one-year experimental licence whose output cannot be released to customers…
Applications for the Advisory AI Growth Lab for legal services close on 27 September 2026. It gives coordinated access to four regulators, but confers no approval or exemption.
The practice direction changes in the 196th Update that went unreported, the CJC review of track limits, and its signal that professionally drafted documents will not need AI…
Three pensions consultations close in early September, TPR published a five-year strategy and Regulatory Roadmap on 14 July, and PwC research finds 80% of legal work resists full…
Two SRA consultations close this autumn, one on complaints and one on litigation funding. Plus the first SFO tipping-off appeal, the leasehold bill timetable, and unapproved AI use.