Global head of shipping Julian Clark leads the UK delegation of a one-day event, titled 'Maritime Nations Forum'. The event, taking place on board the “HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH” today in New York, sees senior leaders from the United Kingdom maritime industry host a delegation of their United States counterparts for talks that aim to boost trans-Atlantic collaboration and lay the foundations for a possible future UK-US trade deal.

In a recent decision, the High Court considered the use of computer or technology assisted review (CAR) as part of e-disclosure.

The recent news that the electric car maker Tesla’s chief executive Elon Musk has accused an employee of carrying out 'extensive and damaging sabotage', places the media spotlight on the hidden dangers of deliberate employee sabotage. Professional support lawyer Emma Ahmed, from Liverpool's employment team, discusses in HRreview.

Many readers will remember the Knight Industries Two Thousand (or KITT) from the 1980s – the fascinating self-aware car driven by the Knight Rider – the Hoff. That car was programmed using sophisticated artificial intelligence and machine learning. The best science fiction (and it was science fiction in the 1980s) should become science fact shortly afterwards. It is that time - because autonomous vehicles are shortly to storm the world stage.

Global head of shipping, Julian Clark and associate Beatrice Cameli have completed a chapter for Global Legal Group's International Comparative Legal Guide for Shipping Law 2018. 

Global head of shipping, Julian Clark, will be taking part in Digital Ship’s Maritime Cyber Resilience Forum on Wednesday 5 September 2018 in Hamburg.

International commercial law firm Hill Dickinson is pleased to announce that its global head of shipping Julian Clark has been included in the 2018 Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders guide for transport.

No ship operator wants to receive a phone call advising them that their vessel’s navigation systems have been hijacked by cyber criminals or made the subject of IP spoofing. Julian Clark, our global head of shipping, considers the legal ramifications.

Hill Dickinson partner and master mariner Ian MacLean and legal director and mariner Jack Hatcher will be speaking at Digital Ship’s Maritime Cyber Resilience Forum in Rotterdam on 15 February 2018.

A recent study has suggested that by 2020 data breaches will have affected almost 25% of the world’s population. Given the increased volume and sophistication of data branches and the looming deadline for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), it is now of paramount importance for organisations to ensure that they will be GDPR compliant on 25 May 2018.

Crime exists wherever there is opportunity and inclination. The incidence of crime, most especially the dishonest extraction of funds out of the hands of those entitled to hold it and into the hands of those who are not, seems undiminished, merely the methods have changed; and some of the perpetrators show a remarkable and troubling ingenuity. But cyber risk obviously ranges far more widely than simple theft.

Julian Clark spoke with World Maritime News in the wake of a cyber attack - which is being seen as a huge wake-up call for the shipping industry - that cost Danish shipping giants Maersk up to 300 million USD.