John Bates

The new personal injury discount rate will be announced on Monday

We’d love you to join us @NorthumbriaLaw on 6 December @LBengtsson82

"A majority of the High Court held that the principles of vicarious liability are confined to employment relationships" (not the relationship between priest and Diocese, in a claim of vicarious liability for sexual assaults). Bird v DP [2024] HCA 41 hcourt.gov.au/assets/publica…

Changes to Neutral Citations for Family Court and Court of Protection iclr.co.uk/blog/legal-pro…

@RobertJenrick Rage, rage against the <checks notes> rule of law in public decision-making. The irony.

First the oil and gas industry, now coking coal for the steel industry. Less than a week in and jobs and economic growth are already being sacrificed on the altar of Labour’s net zero zealotry.

We are excited to announce that on 6 December, @LBengtsson82 and @erg42 will be hosting a @ModernLRev seminar on ‘Living a Reproductive Life in the Workplace.’ Further info, including details on how to submit an abstract, can be found in the Call for Papers flyer below.

Apropos of nothing....

The Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies and the Gendered Violence and Abuse IDRT are hosting the Law Commission Project Launch Event: Domestic Homicide on 21-22 May. All info, including confirmed speakers and registration instructions, are in the flyer:

On the 26 of April we will be hosting a seminar on the concept of legal professional privilege in the 21st century. This seminar, which is open and free for everyone to attend, has been funded by the @ModernLRev Find details and to register: northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-…

The next Mission Impossible plotline seems underwhelming.

Reminder of substituted forms of service: here: by Facebook messenger, by text and WhatsApp message, and ! by transferring a non-fungible token to the relevant wallet addresses. Boonyaem v Pesons Unknown Category A & Ors [2023] EWHC 3180 (Comm) bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/…

Delighted to receive this in the post today 🥳 @NorthumbriaLaw We worked with some fantastic contributors and reviewers on this collection, who made the whole process very enjoyable. Hard work but an important subject matter which requires consideration and scrutiny.

@EnglishOER A broken clock is right twice a day...

Turnitin: "The AI writing score alone is not always sufficient when investigating academic misconduct"? Never sufficient! turnitin.com/blog/ai-writin…

@krug79 Churchill:You shall mediate on the beaches, you shall arbitrate on the landing grounds, you shall conciliate in the fields and use ombudsman processes in the streets, you shall med-arb in the hills; you shall hardly ever litigate....

Big guns hearing CHURCHILL appeal starting tomorrow Court 71. The end of HALSEY to be delivered by the MR, Lady Chief and Birss LJ ( as predicted by the prescient Regional Costs Judge Lumb ).See you there !

Excited to be selected as one of the @UKRI_News Centres for Doctoral Training with the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence

Read our new article on counter fraud measures within the NHS: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… with @katiebenson619 @ProfNickLord Alan Doig and Jackie Harvey

Insightful article by @NorthumbriaLaw academics @Marion_InfoLaw in advance of the Government's AI Safety summit at Bletchley Park 1st and 2nd of November: northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-… @Braid_UK @responsibleaiuk @AISummitFringe @SciTechgovuk @CDEIUK @lawrennd #AIFringe #AISafetySummit

'Scorched earth' now aptly describing both PM's HS2 and climate change policies. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/o…

You get an ology - you're a scientist. But not a woke scientist...