Published on: 29 January 2025
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The forthcoming features could offer multi-model functionality, allowing prompts to extend beyond text to encompass images, video and audio queries; alongside enhanced contextual comprehension, enabling it to better recall details from earlier exchanges and draw more of them into handling your latest requests. They might also bring richer personalisation, permitting it to shape replies more precisely to your requirements, informed by its picture of you from prior interactions, your preferences, and your particular needs. Although their promise is exciting, these capabilities carry consequences for legal practice broadly and, in particular, provoke concerns about confidentiality as AI adoption becomes ever more pervasive, with knock-on effects for dispute resolution today, and what such features could signify for our work in the months and years ahead.
The legal profession stands on the brink of a profound shift in how its work is carried out, propelled by AI. Among the many ramifications are the challenges of safeguarding client confidentiality and what that entails in an AI-driven environment. Confidentiality is a pressing issue as law firms, courts, and the alternative dispute resolution sphere integrate AI tools across increasingly common use-cases, keeping confidentiality front and centre for legal services...
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This Practice Note This Practice Note reviews mechanisms used in settling litigation. A Tomlin order consists of a consent order paired with a schedule. It operates to stay proceedings on terms that have been agreed. The provisions contained in the schedule may remain confidential. This Practice Note describes the scope of confidentiality attaching to the schedule and sets out how it differs from a standard consent order. Sample wording for a Tomlin order is included, alongside links to precedents, as well as guidance on court approval. It also addresses varying, setting aside and enforcing a Tomlin order, including the considerations the court will take into account when handling applications for each. Further guidance is provided on interpreting and applying the relevant provisions of the CPR; however, some courts and divisions impose very specific requirements for both drafting and approval, and for approaching the schedule and confidentiality issues. Accordingly, you must consider the particular rules and court guide provisions in the forum where your claim is proceeding when drawing up the Tomlin order...
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