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Many headline-grabbing claims are made about clinical negligence litigation. For every story that a growing compensation culture is bleeding the NHS dry, there is another suggesting that healthcare professionals have acted with callous indifference to their patients.

The ethical conundrums of lawtech are many, sprouting mostly from its complexity. One of the central tenants of justice has always been that the way in which it is arrived at must be transparent. This can be difficult with lawtech.

Bath Publishing have recently published the 2018/19 edition of the Employment Tribunal Remedies Handbook

Social media portals are regularly used by firms and those who work for law firms in both professional and personal capacities. Their informal nature and the fast pace of use makes it all too easy for regulated people to get carried away with online discussions or comments which can fall foul of the regulator. This is more likely to happen on social media platforms as these are virtual, accessed in the solicitor’s own time and space. It can be easy to forget that solicitors are regulated just the same at 11pm on their home computer as they are at 3pm in the office or at court.

The SRA code of conduct requires all practitioners to “always have regard to the Principles and use them as your starting point when faced with an ethical dilemma” yet there is precious little practical guidance as to how to implement an ethical process when dealing with compliance problems.