Public sector

Is it outrageous to limit strike rights and not CEO pay? That was the motion put before an audience of law firm partners and senior in-house counsel at the first of the 2017 Legal Debate Series at Thomson Reuters. How did our audience decide?

On 8 March 2017, the UK Chancellor, Philip Hammond, delivered the final Spring Budget. Practical Law’s tax team analysed the Budget in real time and delivered an in-depth legal update, which summarises the key business tax announcements. What do you need to know?

Following the Supreme Court's decision in Miller, the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill has been authored, beginning the process by which the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50 and take the UK out of the European Union. How will the Bill's brevity affect its passage through the legislative process?

The law is fertile ground for predictive analytics and machine learning. In part 2 of this series, we look at the social benefits of potential uses of analytics in legal.

The UK House of Lords Constitution Committee recently heard evidence from Professor Richard Susskind about the capacity of technology to improve the lawmaking process in Westminster. The Committee raised questions about the automation of legislation, and also the potential for social media comment to influence Parliamentary deliberations - for better or for worse.