Co-authored by Adriaan Lourens, Candidate Attorney
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping market dynamics and challenging regulators to reconsider how competition law should evolve in response. The use of AI and algorithmic tools raise potential risks under competition law, including the possibility of facilitating collusion between competitors. This creates a complex challenge for competition authorities, who
The growing question for Directors and Officers insurers will be whether their policies cover a director or officer who makes false claims about their company’s artificial intelligence technology, known as AI washing.
A US Attorney’s Office in New York has charged a director with AI washing. According to the US Attorney concerned the director “misled
At the end of June 2025, the High Court once again delivered a judgment reminding us that while technology can undoubtedly make our work quicker and more efficient, it cannot replace the critical duty lawyers have towards the courts and the integrity of their submissions.
The issue arose during an urgent application when it came
Another cautionary tale on the perils of uncritical reliance on generative artificial intelligence (AI) arrived in the English High Court in April 2025. The court found a barrister and a firm of solicitors responsible for including fictitious case citations in formal submissions before the court. The court’s response was uncompromising: counsel and her instructing solicitors
In December 2023, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that an AI cannot be an inventor under the UK Patents Act of 1977, and accordingly patents cannot be granted for inventions derived by AI.
Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks, considers Dr. Stephen Thaler’s applications for patents for
In a recent finding by the CCMA the Commission upheld the dismissal of a university senior academic who had copied and pasted blocks of borrowed material into a published article without acknowledging the sources. He was also accused of not supervising his students to ensure that they had not copied the work of others and
One of the major issues facing the law in an age of autonomous technology is the question of who is liable for damage caused by a machine or artificial intelligence either by physical injury or the failure of a contract. Insurers will have a major role to play.
If a machine such as a driverless
The European Commission has labelled AI as one of the most strategic technologies of the 21st Century (so far of course) and has proposed a three-pronged approach to EU members which is worth considering:
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), a government department that investigates and prosecutes serious or complex fraud and corruption, has replaced barristers with artificial intelligence (AI) to review documents and identify legally privileged material.
While barristers were previously tasked with sifting through documents, the SFO’s new AI system is able to process more than half
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in legal investigations and compliance is one of the most ground breaking ways in which AI is set to change the way in which lawyers do their work.
AI is your new detective
A fitting example of AI in legal investigation action is a due diligence of a company.