UK legal practice: caution on AI use in social media. The Law Society Gazette reports updated guidance for solicitors on AI-driven content and engagement, highlighting confidentiality, accuracy, and client-care risks. Law firms should tighten internal AI policies and approval workflows.
EU research infrastructure: “Resource for AI Science in Europe.” The Commission announced a new coordination resource at the AI in Science Summit to support responsible access to compute and data for research, with governance and reproducibility in scope. European Commission+1
Regulation
EU due-process focus: ETIAS fundamental-rights blog. The EDPS set out expectations on ensuring access to an effective judicial remedy in the EU’s ETIAS system, underscoring transparency, redress mechanisms and legality reviews that map to AI-governance duties. European Data Protection Supervisor+1
Cases
Getty Images v Stability AI Ltd ([2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch)). The Court found that Stability’s AI system had produced “images [were generated] bearing the Getty Images watermark,” establishing trade-mark infringement, while copyright claims failed because infringing acts occurred outside the UK. The decision marks the first UK judgment defining territorial limits and output liability for generative-AI models. Judiciary UK (PDF)
Events
EDPB Plenary (110th). Outcomes from the data-protection regulators’ plenary may shape forthcoming guidance relevant to AI deployments. European Data Protection Board
Scottish Parliament — Economy and Fair Work Committee: “The economic potential of AI.” Evidence session on AI’s impact; useful for monitoring Scottish policy direction and oversight expectations. parliament.scot
Academia
Diab - “Vavilov and Generative AI” (Alberta Law Review). Examines how administrative-law standards of review interact with AI-assisted decision-making, offering a framework for judicial scrutiny of explainability and procedural fairness. SSRN
Business
Law-firm and in-house policies. The UK professional-conduct signal strengthens the expectation for documented controls over AI-mediated publishing: approval chains, human-in-the-loop review, and incident-response for erroneous posts. (See News - Law Society Gazette.)
Research vendors and grantees. EU research initiatives will expect audit trails, dataset provenance, and access controls. Align bids and service agreements with monitoring and reproducibility commitments. (See News - AI in Science resource.)
Adoption of AI
Evidence over assertions. Across legal practice and research, regulators and funders are pushing for proof: document DPIAs, logging, testing protocols, and escalation paths. Blend privacy-engineering with explainability to support redress. (EDPS; EDPB context).
Takeaway
The compliance centre of gravity is clear: professional bodies and EU institutions are converging on verifiable, rights-respecting AI. Organisations should harden policies, proofs and audit trails around AI-assisted outputs, data use, and decision-support, well before enforcement bites.
Sources: Law Society Gazette, European Commission, EDPS, EDPB, Scottish Parliament