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AI in insurance needs to be safe and fair October 1, 2022 Charles Kerrigan and Emre Kasim take a look at the complexities of AI insurance legislation and the use of algorithms and datasets.
Barristers ambivalent about MoJ’s pay hike offer October 1, 2022 Criminal barristers have shown ambivalence towards the government’s offer to apply the 15 per cent legal aid fee hike to the “vast majority” of current cases. Barristers speaking to City A.M. said they welcomed the government’s positive movement, but raised concerns the pay hike alone may not go far enough. Members of the Criminal Bar [...]
Discrimination against Dalits: How status can affect eye health September 30, 2022 The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has recently set up camps in Nepal where members of the highly discriminated against Dalits received cataract-curing surgery. Many cultures have systems of hierarchy entwined in their makeup. In the United Kingdom we have had the hierarchy of Kings and Queens, Knights and Noblemen, followed by merchants and peasants. [...]
P&O Ferries settles with laid-off chef following unlawful firing of 800 staff September 30, 2022 P&O Ferries has settled an employment lawsuit brought forward by one of the nearly 800 seafarers it unlawfully fired in March. The ferry operator settled a case with one of its former chefs for an undisclosed sum after the Dubai-owned company admitted breaking the law by firing 800 staff, without consultation, over a pre-recorded video [...]
Top Apple exec let go over vulgar viral TikTok video September 30, 2022 A top Apple executive is to leave after being filmed making inappropriate jokes on social media. Tony Blevins, the technology giant’s vice president of procurement, was heard talking about “fondling big-breasted women” for his job, during a viral post on TikTok. In the clip by Daniel Mac, a viral blogger who asks people in nice [...]
Ukraine’s president Zelensky applies for fast-tracked NATO membership after annexations and nuclear threats September 30, 2022 Ukraine’s president Vlodymyr Zelensky has applied for fast-track application of his country to Nato, after Russia’s illegal annexation of four regions. The head of state issued a statement after a meeting with Kyiv’s national security and defence councils. This comes after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of eastern-Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson [...]
Planet Crypto: Where’s WalDo Kwon? September 30, 2022 We've teamed up with Planet Crypto to bring you a regular chuckle in the world of cryptocurrency - can you help find Do Kwon?
Luxury resort developer jailed for 12 years over £226m fraud September 30, 2022 A “thrice bankrupt fraudster”, who lost investors almost £400m through a “fatally flawed” Caribbean property scheme, was jailed at Southwark Crown Court today. David Ames, 70, a former double-glazing seller from Essex, was sentenced to 12 years in prison today, after being convicted of defrauding investors of £226m. Ames’ Harlequin property development company collapsed in [...]
Putin declares four regions of Ukraine part of Russia as nuclear warnings rumble September 30, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared four Ukrainian regions part of Russia, amid renewed warnings the Kremlin may use a strategic nuclear weapon. In a ceremony at the Kremlin, the authoritarian leader announced that Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia would be subsumed by Russia, following four ‘referendums’, which were widely declared as illegal and a [...]
Think-tank: Kwarteng budget “less out of control than the market thinks” September 30, 2022 ONE of the country’s leading economic think-tanks has described estimates that Kwasi Kwarteng’s package of tax cuts in last week’s mini budget could cost £45bn as a “gross exaggeration.” The package has gone down badly with both markets and politicians, with the cost of UK borrowing spiking due to concerns over runaway government spending. However [...]
