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How Public is Public Law? The Current State of Open Access to Administrative Court Judgments
Judicial review judgments possess multi-layered value.
27 March 2024
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Response to the Call for Evidence by the Independent Review of Administrative Law Panel (2020)
Mishcon de Reya has a long history of engagement with public causes and human rights issues.
13 March 2024
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A Global Community of Courts? Modelling the Use of Persuasive Authority as a Complex Network
There has been growing discussion among legal scholars over the past two decades of an emerging “global community of courts” composed of a network of judicial dialogue across national borders.
13 March 2024
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Fantastically ordered prompts and where to find them: Overcoming few-shot prompt order sensitivity
When primed with only a handful of training samples, very large, pretrained language models such as GPT-3 have shown competitive results when compared to fully-supervised, fine-tuned, large, pretrained language models.
13 March 2024
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Mission Possible! Free Access to Case Law and The National Archives
The National Archives launched a new service called Find Case Law in April of last year.
18 May 2023
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Data Science Team co-authors paper on applying machine learning to UK case law judgments
The Mishcon de Reya Data Science team recently co-authored a paper recently published in the AI4Legal Workshop Proceedings as part of the International Semantic Web Conference.
9 November 2022
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Finding Case Law: Leveraging Machine Learning Research to Enhance Public Access to UK Judgments
Once ranked last in Europe for public access to judgment data, the United Kingdom has taken large strides in recent years to improve the accessibility of judgments.
27 March 2022
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AI Law and Regulation
This timely book provides an extensive overview and analysis of the law and regulation as it applies to the technology and uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
15 March 2022
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Ergo – a programming language for Smart Legal Contracts Conference: ProLaLa 2022 – Programming Languages and the Law 2022
We present a smart legal contract platform to support a wide range of smart legal contract use cases.
10 March 2022
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Oraclised Data Schemas: Improving contractual certainty in uncertain times
The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting government restrictions to individuals and selected business sectors has caused unprecedented interruptions and uncertainty.
28 August 2021
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Pre-trained Contextual Embeddings for Litigation Code Classification
Machine learning (ML) is a collection of technologies that has matured in recent years and offers many potential opportunities to help Mishcon de Reya deliver value to clients.
26 August 2021

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