The Technology Platform

On Tuesday, 10 June, Mishcon de Reya partnered with Oxfordshire Greentech for the "Climate Solutions Conference: Ashes to Action".

In order to help speed up processes and find the best talent, employers are increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist with recruitment. However, concerns could arise under data protection law, if the use of some features of these tools lead to discrimination based on the inference of special category data, such as race or religion. Such categories of personal data will often also constitute protected characteristics for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010.

Laurel, formerly known as Time by Ping, an AI-Time company and a 2017 alumnus of Mishcon de Reya's MDR Lab, has announced its $100 million Series C funding round. The investment was led by IVP, with participation from Google Ventures, 01.a, Rahul Mehta (Managing Partner at DST Global), DST Global, Alexis Ohanian, and returning investors ACME and Anthos.

As generative AI continues to advance rapidly, it is raising fundamental questions at the intersection of technology and creative rights. Central to the debate is how the law should apply to the use of massive datasets, often containing copyright protected works, to train the powerful generative AI systems.

The High Court trial between Getty Images and Stability AI began on Monday 9 June, and will address Getty's claims that Stability AI scraped and copied vast numbers of Getty's images without Getty's consent or payment, in order to train its GenAI image generator, Stable Diffusion.

The Government’s Strategic Defence Review 2025 aims to make the UK safer by being ‘secure at home and strong abroad’. In this article we look at the updates in it relating to defence technology.

In this article we will examine the draft regulatory regime and the FCAs crypto roadmap in order to ascertain what the rest of 2025 will hold for cryptoassets.

Effective recruitment of patients remains one of the most significant hurdles to running a successful clinical trial. Issues with patient enrolment and retention are well-known as leading causes behind the termination and delay of trials globally.

The UK Government is currently engaged in a significant public consultation to address the evolving relationship between copyright law and artificial intelligence, the results of which could shape the future of the nation's digital landscape.

Mishcon de Reya has advised Euphoric Global Ltd (EGL) on its acquisition of part of the business and assets of Peppy Health Ltd (PHL).

The decision of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in BSH v Electrolux marks a significant shift in the interpretation of the Brussels Regulation (recast) (Regulation) in so far as it allocates jurisdiction in disputes involving registered intellectual property rights. The ruling has implications for how patent infringement cases are handled across EU member states, particularly when the validity of the patent is challenged.