Oliver Sullivan

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Freedom to Fly Your Drones Limited with New Commission Move

3rd October 2017
The European Commission has recently given a fresh push to speed up the implementation of EU-wide rules for the use of drones in the European Union. More than 1200 safety occurrences - including near-misses between drones and aircrafts - were reported in Europe in 2016, which underlines the pressing need for a modern and flexible […]
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The Big Data Challenge Within the Legal Community

3rd October 2017
Big Data, it seems, is everywhere. The capacity and speed delivered by new technology systems allows incomprehensibly large sets of data to be analysed by computers, revealing patterns, trends, and associations that can then be used to analyse and predict with greater certainty. This is very useful in the practice of law which is characterised […]
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Environmental Group Asks Court to Recognize Colorado River as a Person

2nd October 2017
A direct action environmentalist group called Deep Green resistance is advocating for the Colorado river to be officially recognised as a person. The organisation is asking, by motion of a lawsuit last week, for the US District Court for the District of Colorado to grant personhood status to the 1,450-mile-long water flow. If such status […]
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New Tax Evasion Fines: Is Your Firm Ready?

2nd October 2017
Here Richard Grint, financial services expert at PA Consulting Group warns firms to start acting now to implement a framework that will monitor and mitigate risks of the new tax evasion fines to be implemented by HMRC this month. Firms need to start acting now to implement a framework that will monitor and mitigate risks. […]
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6 Things the Government Should Focus Immigration Policy on

29th September 2017
This week, a leading Russian expert on countering terrorism, Joseph Linder said that following the attack on London Bridge, Britain should extradite thousands of people. With the upcoming general election, this is a sensitive matter to approach the public with. According to The Sun, he said: “The political leadership of England must take radical measures. […]
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Legal Businesses Are Failing to Report Data Breaches

29th September 2017
The real extent of the legal sector’s problem with data breaches has been revealed by a survey which suggests many in the industry delay reporting data breaches, or even ignore them entirely. Data breaches have hit the news already in 2017 with high profile cases such as mobile phone company Three – where an employee’s […]
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