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27th March 2025The Online Safety Act: What Digital Providers Must Do to Stay Compliant in 2025
The Online Safety Act (OSA) establishes a broad regulatory framework for providers of user-to-user services and search services with links to the UK. Service providers that fail to comply with the OSA face serious financial and legal consequences. Notably, Ofcom has the authority to impose fines of up to £18 million or 10% of global revenue, making non-compliance a significant risk for digital businesses.
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19th March 2025SMB instructed by former postmaster, Lee Castleton OBE, to issue proceedings in the High Court against Post Office and Fujitsu
On 14 March, SMB was instructed by former postmaster, Lee Castleton OBE, to issue proceedings in the High Court against the Post Office and Fujitsu.
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26th February 2025AI needs data, creatives need protection – can the UK balance both?
After ten weeks, the UK government’s consultation on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI) closed last night. Launched on 17 December 2024, the consultation invited input from creatives, AI companies, and industry stakeholders alike, reflecting the government’s ongoing efforts in “supporting the growth of the creative industries and AI sectors while recognising the value of human-centred activity.
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12th February 2025A New Age for Subscription Contracts under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Act 2024.
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Act 2024 (the “Act”) has passed Royal Assent, and brings in with it a new raft of protections for consumers.
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29th January 2025This is Family Mediation Week – So what is Mediation?
Family Mediation Week is an annual event where family lawyers come together to raise awareness of family mediation and the benefits it can bring to separating families.
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22nd January 2025Winter Immigration Update
Below is SMB's Winter newsletter, highlighting important updates to immigration policy in the UK and worldwide
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20th January 2025Pioneering the Future: How the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan Aims to Harness the Power of Artificial Intelligence
AI has the potential to reshape industries, enhance productivity and transform public services on a global scale. Recognising the profound potential of this technology, the UK government has launched its AI Opportunities Action Plan (“Plan”) to position the UK as a global leader in AI innovation.
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16th January 2025The CMA granted significant fining and enforcement powers for breaches of consumer law
The UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (the “Act”) received Royal Assent on 24 May 2024, and expands the protections afforded to consumers, in particular by overhauling and expanding the list of unfair commercial practices, and by introducing much more regulation around subscription contracts.
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9th January 2025LLMs – The Great Data Heist
Large Language Models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that use deep learning algorithms to understand and generate text, images and videos in a way that mimics similar outputs created by humans, basing its responses on the vast quantities of data they are trained on. While LLMs can generate creative text formats, legal documents, or summarise information, they are not designed to be inherently truthful or unbiased and can generate inaccurate or misleading content
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