Dec 28, 2018 Effective investigations By Slaughter and May The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in our personal and professional environments will undoubtedly be a leading force in shaping the...
Dec 24, 2018 Disclosure pilot scheme – a step forward for legal tech in English court proceedings By Samantha Holland On 1 January 2019 a new disclosure pilot scheme will be rolled out in the English Business and Property Courts. The two-year pilot will...
Dec 19, 2018 Confounding the innovator’s dilemma By Chris Browne If Microsoft ends the year as the world’s most valuable company, it will be the first year it closes out in the top position since 2002....
Dec 19, 2018 Tax on cryptoassets By Zoe Andrews Cryptoassets (cryptocurrency tokens such as bitcoin) are now so prevalent that HMRC has set out its view of the law about how individuals...
Dec 19, 2018 AI and the effect on tax allocation By Zoe Andrews Discussions continue at a global level on how the international tax rules should be reformed so they work adequately for today’s business...
Dec 18, 2018 Why algorithms need auditing By Rob Sumroy When the Deep Thought supercomputer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy revealed that the answer to life, the Universe and everything...
Dec 18, 2018 Has France given up on an EU digital services tax? By Slaughter and May France seems to have given up on reaching consensus on an EU-wide digital services tax, by announcing that it will introduce its domestic...
Dec 17, 2018 Fairness in Taxation - Qu'est-ce que c'est? By Deeksha Rathi On 9 December 2018, the French economist Thomas Piketty and others published a manifesto for a “fairer” Europe. To fund the changes...
Dec 14, 2018 The death of email By Emma Walton One of the biggest pain points for our lawyers is the vast number of emails they receive in any one day . Many legal tech tools we see...
Dec 13, 2018 Taxing international brands By Slaughter and May The UK’s proposed digital services tax is not the only new tax measure that is targeted at the modern digital economy. A second change...
Dec 11, 2018 Sharing the tax cake By Slaughter and May There is public consensus that multinational businesses should pay tax on their profits. The much more difficult question is where such...
Dec 11, 2018 Unlocking the Potential of AI for English Law By Andrew Jolly We are really pleased to be working with the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford as part of the project ‘Unlocking the Potential...
Dec 10, 2018 VAT and digital publications: time to embrace the future of reading By Deeksha Rathi A new EU Directive that came into force last week allows member states to align VAT rates for electronically supplied books, newspapers,...
Dec 10, 2018 Transfer your learning By Richard Batstone It's not often that you see academic papers cited in the national press, so it was great to see the Financial Times pick up on some...
Dec 07, 2018 2019: year of the oracle By Slaughter and May In blockchain circles it is said that 2019 will be the year of the oracle. Oracles are real-time reliable data feeds which, by...
Dec 07, 2018 New geo-blocking rules: one step closer to a digital single market By Natalie Donovan This week saw the EU take one-step closer to its goal of creating a digital single market. From 3rd December new rules banning...