In this episode, we take the conversation a step further, moving from the challenges of mobile and messaging-app data to the fast-emerging frontier of social media evidence.

Roisin McCrory, Meghan Ryan, David Shepherd and Uchi Jayawardhena explore how posts, private messages, ephemeral content and platform-specific multimedia are increasingly finding their way into litigation and investigations.

As organisations and their employees communicate across an ever-growing mix of platforms, the speakers examine why collecting, preserving and authenticating social media data is significantly more complex than traditional forms of digital evidence. They discuss the practical challenges created by evolving platforms, restricted access pathways and constantly changing content formats, and what these developments mean for legal teams and investigators.

Through emerging trends and real-world examples, the episode highlights a simple but critical reality: AI cannot analyse what you cannot reliably collect. The discussion offers insights into why social media is becoming one of the next major challenges in digital evidence and how organisations can prepare for what lies ahead.

In this episode of Insurance Bites, Hamish Hunter and Kate Mann, Senior Associates in the Insurance & Professional Risks team, report on the appeal in Liberty Managing Agency Limited v Chedid which considered whether allegations of fraud against directors or officers permit a D&O insurer to withdraw cover, or whether the insurer must wait for independent determination. This is a critical question for an insured policyholder as it may determine whether they have the resources to mount a proper defence to the allegations. Our article on the first instance decision can be seen here on our Insurance Notes blog.

What happens when an employer's own conduct prevents the contractor from meeting the contractual completion date? And what are the consequences when a contract has no effective mechanism to deal with acts of prevention? In the first episode of the Construction Law Shortcast, Xavier Milne and Noe Minamikata tackle two foundational principles of English construction law that anyone involved in construction projects needs to understand: the prevention principle and time at large.

These concepts have significant practical implications for the completion date, liquidated damages regime, and other contractual relief potentially available to the parties. A concise breakdown of two principles that neither employers nor contractors should overlook.