w/c 10th October 2022 Barristers vote to end strike action Accept 15% pay rise Additional funding for case preparation Deal applies to backlog of 60,000 cases Crown courts to begin hearing cases from Tuesday 11th October Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted to end their long-running strike action after the government offered a new pay deal. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) has confirmed that 57% out of 2,605 who voted were in favourContinue reading “Criminal Barristers vote to end strike action”
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Prepare for this week’s legal game changer in Scotland
w/c 10th October 2022 Indyref2 – essential facts ahead of the Supreme Court hearing 88th Annual SNP Conference winds down SNP committed to seek Indyref2 British Government refuses Supreme Court to decide whether Scottish government can hold referendum without consent from Westminster UK Government lawyers claim it would not be an “abstract opinion poll” but a clear attempt to terminate the Union Just as the 88th annual SNP Conference winds down Britain’s Supreme Court hasContinue reading “Prepare for this week’s legal game changer in Scotland”
Reports about Bruce Willis selling the rights to his face to a Deep Fake Company are Fake News
Over the last few days many media outlets have reported that Bruce Willis sold the rights to use his face to Deepcake, a deepfake company. The reports are, however, fake. A spokesperson for Bruce Willis said there was “no partnership or agreement ” with Deepcake. Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI) to create astonishingly realistic videos which look and sound like the real thing. The commercial implications are significant. The technology opens new revenue streams including for those celebrities noContinue reading “Reports about Bruce Willis selling the rights to his face to a Deep Fake Company are Fake News”
Catalunya
I’m just back from Barcelona where I have been presenting to the Societat d’Estudis Militars on my thoughts on how an independent Scotland, should it ever come to pass, might go about designing and organising its own armed forces. All predicated, of course, on Scotland holding another independence referendum and the electorate voting in favour of it, which looks increasingly unlikely in the short to medium terms at least. This particular topic is something I’veContinue reading “Catalunya”
UK Defence Budget Hiked
The UK’s new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, pledged before her elevation to power that the UK defence budget would rise from its present just over 2.1% of GDP to 3.0% by 2030. Although nobody can accurately predict what Britain’s GDP will actually be by that date, and of course much depends on the state of the economy and how inflation will affect that number, some have predicted that it might amount to an additional £157Continue reading “UK Defence Budget Hiked”