Is AI ready to ingest briefs, summarise them, and answer questions about them? If so, how accurate is it?

The principles applicable to the grant of interim and interlocutory injunctions, and the nature of the documentation required for an application.

Over the past fifteen years or so, a number of 'guideline' judgments have been delivered by the courts to assist with formulating the appropriate sentence for a given offence type. This article looks at the origin of those guidelines, the offences for which there are guidelines available, and what the individual guidelines provide.

In what circumstances may a lay-witness be permitted to give evidence of what he/she perceives from CCTV footage, and when does such evidence become inadmissible opinion evidence from a non-expert?

To what extent is judicial discretion fettered by the Personal Injuries Guidelines? When, and in what circumstances, and to what extent, may a judge depart from the Personal Injuries Guidelines?

Where a criminal act involves the use of an internet connection, in what circumstances will it be incumbent on investigating and prosecuting authorities to seek out, preserve, and disclose information relating to IP addresses?

In sexual misconduct cases one is often faced with a classic 'swearing match' – where one person (the complainant) gives evidence that the misconduct happened, and one other person (the accused) says that it did not. I am often thereby reminded of the case of Hannon (facts below) and often wish I could bring that case to the attention of the jury. May I, properly, do so?

A classic text for trial lawyers and law students (published in 1903) on how to cross-examine witnesses.