The Cambridge Union Society recently had a debate on the subject, This House Believes AI Will Bring More Harm Than Good. The debate consisted of speeches for and against the motion, which were delivered by a machine, known as Project Debater. Before the debate started, the machine’s assistant, a human from IBM Research, explained how it worked. The machine is programmed to search around 400 million articles on the internet, and come up with persuasive…
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Data protection: Representative liability
On the true construction of General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the GDPR), a representative appointed under art 27 thereof could not be held liable for a controller’s breaches of the GDPR. Accordingly, the Queen’s Bench Division, held that there was no basis in law for a claim, alleging breaches of the GDPR by a data controller company, to be brought against the defendant company in its capacity as the art 27 representative of that…
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The appellant had been sent to a young offenders’ institution when he was 15 years old, where he had been placed in ‘single unlock’, meaning he could not leave his cell when any other detainees were out of their cells. He failed in his appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, that that his removal from association had not been in breach of the prohibition of torture under art 3a and…
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The appellants (T and C) successfully appealed against their extradition to Moldova, in the case of T, to face trial in respect of an offence of theft; in the case of C, to serve a sentence of five years’ imprisonment for theft. The Administrative Court held that on the available information and evidence, the assurances given by the respondent government of Moldova with a view to satisfying the court that there was no substantial risk…
Read MoreEmployment: Discrimination
The appeal of the claimant (E) was dismissed, in proceedings in which he had alleged discrimination on grounds of race, victimisation and harassment at work. E had made many unsuccessful applications for positions within the defendant (Royal Mail). The Supreme Court held that the change in language from s 54A(2) of the Race Relations Act 1976 to that in s 136 of the Equality Act 2010 had not made a substantive change in the law….
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The application of the Charity Commission for England and Wales to wind up the respondent charity succeeded. The Chancery Division held that the various factors combined to lead inevitably to the conclusion that part defaults justified a decision to wind up on just and equitable grounds. It would not be in the public interest to allow the charity to continue with its current trustee/director involved. Charity – Trustee – Winding up of charity In…
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