Karim Khan has discovered what “accountability” feels like when you’re the one being held to it. The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, who made a career intoning about the rule of law and the transgressions of Israel, has been fired for his own alleged transgressions. Even more surprising is the firing was found by the
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UK Crown Prosecution Service lawyers were left red-faced after it emerged that two entirely fake cases had been cited in written submissions to the High Court during an extradition appeal. It’s the latest in a growing list of incidents where artificial intelligence has generated “hallucinated” fictitious citations in formal legal documents. The errors surfaced ahead
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For years, Samreen Akhtar embodied the legal profession’s favourite narrative. The daughter of a Huddersfield mechanic from a Pashtun family, she was showcased by the Bar Council as a social mobility advocate and hailed as one of the brightest new criminal barristers on the circuit, building a career defending clients accused of serious offences. Now,
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Blank Rome is facing proposed class actions after a cyberattack of what appears to be a brazen and blatant ‘attack’, exposed sensitive personal information belonging to more than 57,000 current and former clients, highlighting how a simple human mistake can trigger major legal consequences. According to the firm’s own account, the breach occurred when a
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When does everyday language become trademark infringement? That’s the question brewing in a new intellectual property clash between a two-store London cafe and a £1.5 billion hospitality behemoth. The independent Coffee Studio recently applied to register a simple, three-word slogan: “Eat Drink Work.” They quickly found themselves in the legal crosshairs of Mitchells & Butlers—the
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Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor An AI-only law firm, Garfield, has just notched up what is being billed as the first courtroom win by an “AI lawyer” against human opposition in England in a story made for law marketing, legal tech and AI-watchers. An AI-only law firm that once made headlines for sending “polite chaser”
Sydney’s legal elite traded courtroom advocacy for operatic arias last Friday night, proving that theatrical ambition runs deep within the New South Wales bar. The Banco court of the NSW Supreme Court was converted into a stage for the Bench and Bar Choir’s latest production, a localized, patriotic adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic maritime
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Founder of Citron Research Found Guilty of Scheming to Manipulate Stock Market via Media Campaigns LOS ANGELES – Stock analyst and frequent guest on business television news channels was found guilty by a jury today for using his public platform to illicitly profit by manipulating stock market activity and trading opposite to the position he presented
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The death of the billable hour is something we have talked about and reported for – what seems – years. But now, according to a recently viewed billboard in San Francisco, the end is indeed here for the age-old billable hour. But it is also a clever ‘seizing the moment’ move by an AI law
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Franks File Speaks Frankly of Dimwits and Nonsense John Bowie There is, somewhere in Wellington, a Law Society Standards Committee whose members presumably rise each morning, gaze into the bathroom mirror, and think: yes — today I shall save the Nation from the menace of correspondence. It is the only plausible explanation for what was
