Artificial intelligence triggers frothing excitement in legal circles, but the role of older technology is still being debated. Ministers have unveiled a review of how computer evidence is used in court. After the Post Office Horizon scandal, there are concerns that presumptions about the reliability of technology could lead to future miscarriages of justice.

In this new issue of Private Eye, the magazine swiped at Trump’s talk of taking control of the Panama Canal and buying Greenland from Denmark and jokingly suggested him as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize following his sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

This is not your grandfather’s attention. It is not a passive thing, an article read or a news report digested. This attention — via smartphones — seizes you. It energises and angers you. It may change your view of life, of politics, of yourself. The algorithm is the message. Gaining any attention wins elections; that’s why the Democrats lost.

Donald Trump has launched a fragrance collection that promises to embody confidence, resilience, and victory. A satirical dive into the world of presidential perfumes reveals why this might just be the most talked-about Christmas gift of the season.

A retired High Court judge is supporting a call for family lawyers and judges to have a greater awareness of the impact of trauma on people to avoid unjust outcomes for victims of abuse.

Politicians flee as demonstrators surge into the Senate crying ‘traitors’ at the outgoing president’s ‘dangerous’ judicial reforms.

First Supreme Court president declines a new term in former colony’s final court of appeal ‘for personal reasons’. Lord Phillips’s decision was welcomed by freedom of speech campaigners, but is criticised by pro-democracy campaigners.

Mr Justice Marcus Smith’s actions amounted to an abuse of power, the judicial conduct investigations office said.

The Mini has had its most important reboot since The Italian Job — and the spirit of cool Britannia has gone electric.

Meanwhile in Brazil, Elon Musk has called him an “evil dictator.” Police officers in São Paulo once nicknamed him “Kojak,” after the shaven-headed New York TV detective who would bend the rules to catch the bad guys. His supporters insist he is a “crusader,” the last line of defence for democracy in Brazil. The shaven-headed and conservative Alexandre de Moraes has become an unlikely hero of the left after taking on the X owner over disinformation on social media.

A report on the year’s appointments of judges and magistrates shows a better picture for women, but there are still too few ethnic minority post-holders The latest figures on judicial diversity over the past decade reveal that the percentage of women appointed has risen from 24 to 38 per cent, but the appointment of black judges has remained at 1 per cent.

Here are three writers for The Atlantic trying to explain the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity and what it means for the future of the American presidency.

A lack of action over reported bullying and intimidation by an employment tribunal judge brings into question how transparently judicial misconduct is handled in the United Kingdom. Alison McDermott, who worked at Sellafield, drew attention to Judge Lancaster’s alleged behaviour when he rejected her whistleblowing detriment claim in 2021. This article was originally published by The Times.

We mere mortals from the tent court on Great South Road in Papakura are yet again ahead of the judicial resourcefulness curve as plans to repurpose the local RSA into a new court are afoot. In keeping, really, with the ponderings of a former UK High Court judge telling The Times’ Crime and Justice Commission that pop-up courts could cut the case backlog and ‘line up community with justice’.  HERE

When in Rome, try your hand at 22 gestures per 100 words. Italians have a saying. “A gesture,” they begin, probably while waving a hand for emphasis, “is worth more than a thousand words.” Italians have (to little surprise) been found to be more expressive than the rest of us.

The system has been ‘degraded’, ‘starved’, and ‘cut right to the bone’, according to Lord Burnett of Maldon. It is not really a good time for the justice system. Even stalwart supporters in the past have turned into doom-mongers. A case in point is Lord Burnett of Maldon, who until recently was the Lord Chief Justice, the senior judge in England and Wales. Burnett warned that the criminal justice system has become so degraded by budget cuts that it will take years to recover.

At this time of year, we’re looking for the uplifting moments that make us smile and reflect. We’ve found two goodies for you to watch: The Irish pub’s Christmas ad that went viral, and St Andrew’s College cover of Stairway to Heaven.