Topic
SRA guidance, COLP duties, and UK regulatory moves on AI — diffed and interpreted.
Briefs·Explainer
The regulation map records 76 reviewed country answers on client data in AI tools: binding rules, guidance, proposals and gaps.
Briefs·Weekly briefingIssue
Issue 2: the SDT's first AI-citation case, 476 US court rows on record, California SB 574 with the Governor, Germany, Poland and Ireland AI Act laws.
Research·Report
48 matters before regulators in 7 countries: 5 dispositions verified from the regulator's own document (7 rows), 4 reported, 36 open; the fastest took 104 days.
Research·Analysis
Summer 2026 reviewed: the SRA's AI warning notice, Ireland's mandatory AI declaration in civil filings and the EU's deferred high-risk AI Act duties.
Briefs·Weekly briefingIssue
Issue 1: 50 incidents added, the SRA's misuse-of-AI warning notice, Ireland's Practice Direction HC 142, deferred EU high-risk duties, 128 tools on record.
Research·Analysis
In Cork v Smith, a junior solicitor's AI tool fabricated the text of a rule that does not exist. Pinsent Masons self-referred to the SRA.
Briefs·Guidance diffWhat changed
The version record of the SRA, Bar Council, and Law Society guidance on generative AI — what each says now, and when it changed.
