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15 September 2023
While the European Commission proposed the world’s first law to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in 2021, it is only this year that the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“the Act”) reached its final stages. Although the process of finalising the law can be lengthy, it is possible that the Act will be adopted by the end of 2023.
15 September 2023
Universities are hot beds of creativity and collaborative research is one of their key activities, with university students and academics routinely involved in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborations across the institution, or with others.
14 September 2023
A £6.7 million fine imposed on Network Rail last week by the High Court at Aberdeen is the latest in a long list of seven figure fines imposed on companies for health and safety offences in the UK in the past year alone.
08 September 2023
As the deadline to respond to the Scottish Government’s invitation for views on the discount rate passed on 11th July 2023, we look back at the recent history of the discount rate in Scotland and consider what lies ahead.
31 August 2023
The Clinical Defence and Professional Discipline team at BTO specialise in the representation and defence of professionals in negligence claims and in fitness to practise (FTP) hearings before their professional regulators. We are often instructed to represent medical and dental students at University FTP hearings. Universities monitor these students’ FTP throughout their studies and can take action to prevent them finishing their course, which ultimately prevents them from entering their chosen profession.
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