Worldwide: New Technology

Digital evidence has always mattered in family proceedings. Messages, emails, financial records and photographs often sit at the centre of a case, shaping how the court understands a relationship, a pattern of behaviour, or what a child has experienced.

The demo is always impressive. The assistant is fluent, fast, confident. It surfaces the right clause, summarizes the right section, answers like it understands the matter.

A new state-backed fund is offering AI start-ups an unprecedented combination of capital investment, access to supercomputing infrastructure, and expedited visa processing.

The European Union and United Kingdom have introduced new Technology Transfer Block Exemption regulations, marking the first major update since 2014 and the UK's first post-Brexit IP-related block exemption. These regulations provide crucial safe harbours for technology licensing arrangements, determining when such agreements are compatible with competition law. While both regimes remain closely aligned, key differences emerge in their treatment of database rights, market share thresholds, and licensing neg

Private capital firms understand that effective AI governance is not merely a compliance exercise but a strategic imperative that drives value creation. This analysis explores how alternative asset managers...

A new associate joins a complex matter and spends days reconstructing context that already exists somewhere in the firm. A partner asks whether the firm has handled a similar issue before, and the answer depends on who happens to be in the room. A senior lawyer retires, and decades of judgment, precedent, and practical knowledge become harder to reach.

In this edition we round up FinTech-related financial services regulatory developments for the week ending 15 May 2026.

The INTA Annual Meeting 2026 in London brought together the global intellectual property community to discuss the profession's evolving landscape. Three dominant themes emerged: the careful integration of AI into IP practice, mounting economic and geopolitical pressures reshaping client behavior, and the profession's ongoing operational adaptation to hybrid working models and changing market dynamics.

The government announced it would be updating the UK's Cyber Security Regime shortly after it came into power in July 2024. On 12 November 2025, it presented the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill to Parliament.