Frears, Joanne
-
(Article) Will Blockchain change the legal world?
01.01.2022
Joanne Frears looks at Blockchain - what it is and if it will disrupt legal practice. -
(Article) The earth and everything that's in it - sustainability and circularity in law
14.02.2023
During the past decade, a light has been focused on the excessive consumption of humankind and the harm that it wreaks across the earth, the sea that surrounds it, and the space above. International treaties, such as the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the European Strategy on Plastics 2018, the European Green Deal 2019, the Circular Economy Action Plan 2020, the Climate Change Act 2021, and the Environment Act all provide comprehensive frameworks that seek to turn back the clock, cool the planet, restore habitats, and consider circularity and sustainability as keystones in all law. -
(Article) Data Bites Back
22.01.2024
"Big Data is not about the data", Harvard University professor Gary King observed in 2016, and went on to note that data is a largely free-to-use by-product of the digital economy. Whilst the scale of it is exponential, the key to "Big Data" is new ways with analytics and statistical methods, new computer science methodology, and ground-breaking approaches to application of these to analysis. As Big Data is not about the data but about the ability to analyse it, as lawyers we can draw parallels with the knowledge bank of precedent and practice we all carry with us in our professional lives - that ability to identify trends and borrow from different disciplines and to use a single fact or observation to turn a case or someone's perspective around.