<h5>"It is a ground-breaking initiative to bring regulators together in this way to support technology innovators in law." </h5>
Sheldon Mills, Executive Director, Consumers and Competition, Financial Conduct Authority and Chair of the Regulatory Response Unit

The Regulatory Response Unit brings together relevant regulators into a single, fast response forum, to make it easy for pioneers to access and navigate the rules and move forward with confidence. Especially useful for pioneers pushing the boundaries or where a product touches more than one regulatory regime.

Bar Standards Board

Council for Licensed Conveyancers

Cost Lawyer Standards Board

Financial Conduct Authority

Intellectual Property Regulation Board

Law Society of Scotland

Law Society of Northern Ireland

Legal Services Board

Solicitors Regulation Authority

CILEx Regulation

The Faculty Office

Information Commissioner's Office

Immigration Commissioner's Office

The Regulators

ClauseMatch looks to transform regulation into digital, machine-readable form with an easy-to-use, ​AI-powered ​smart document​ collaboration​ platform, making it easier for businesses to automate and manage their compliance and to keep up with regulations.
The Lawtech Sandbox Pilot connected ClauseMatch to regulators through the Regulatory Response Unit, to explore and progress digitisation of the regulatory framework, as well as facilitating access to legal and regulatory experts to better understand their customer and develop a dataset in-house to train and test their AI.

Case study

ClauseMatch

Hunit is a software platform that enables law firms and corporate legal departments to create smart legal contracts (SLCs) and transform existing agreements into SLCs by embedding self-executing actions directly into Word documents, without the need for any coding.
Hunit sought regulatory clarity through the Lawtech Sandbox, and were able to work constructively and with the Solicitors Regulation Authority on practical challenges involving regulated activities, such as the ability of SLCs to handle client money, shaped product development.

Hunit

A commissioned independent assessment of the LawtechUK work programme to-date and its impact on technology and the legal sector

LawtechUK Independent Impact Assessment

Two and a half years on from the inception of LawtechUK, we have created this report to summarise what has been achieved so far

LawtechUK Progress Report - May 2022

This proof of concept sets out how privacy enhancing technologies can support organisations to extract insights from their data.

Legal Data Access, Multi-party Proof of Concept

Hunit publishes a detailed paper exploring the practicalities of applying smart legal contracts in today’s legal sector.

Functional Application of Smart Legal Contracts Paper by Hunit

Regulation does not restrict the uptake of digital identity technologies, and uptake is encouraged, UK regulators say.

Digital ID Verification in the Legal Sector – Joint Statement

These resources have been compiled as part of The Legal Data Vision, a joint project by LawtechUK and the Open Data Institute.

Legal Data Resources

Read the Vision by clicking 'learn more' below.

LawtechUK and the Open Data Institute launch Legal Data Vision

LawtechUK brought together people from across sectors and professions at its ‘Contracts, just smarter’ event in London and online.

Contracts, Just Smarter - Event Reply

LawtechUK and its UK Jurisdiction Taskforce launch ‘Smarter Contracts’ project

The Law Commission’s work on electronic trade documents, digital assets and conflict will support the use of smarter contracts

Law Commission Projects

Discover the learnings from our digital and smart contracts industry roundtable.

LawtechUK industry roundtable

LawtechUK, the Law Commission and 3 Verulam Buildings talked to the Society for Computers and Law In-House Lawyers’ Group about...

SCL In-House Lawyers' event

A short film showing examples of lawtech in action and how it is transforming law for the benefit of the UK economy and society.

Lawtech in action

A film from LawtechUK about the benefits of lawtech to the economy and society

The why of lawtech

Missed the Lawtech Sandbox Showcase 2022, catch up here

Lawtech Sandbox Showcase 2022

A year of practical delivery and opportunity for UK lawtech

2021 - A year of practical delivery and opportunity for UK lawtech

Join us for our latest 'Ask the experts' session.

Ask the experts: Legal services regulation

Watch the Lawtech Sandbox 2021 launch event

Lawtech Sandbox 2021 launch event

Our research with the Legal Services Board.

How Lawtech Can Help SMEs Deal With Legal Issues – Qualitative Study

Watch the Lawtech Sandbox pioneers explain their missions and objectives.

Meet the latest Lawtech Sandbox cohort

Meet the latest Lawtech Sandbox cohort set to push boundaries of lawtech

Latest Lawtech Sandbox set to push boundaries of lawtech

Sharing our insights from industry as we look to bring the benefits of smarter contracting to life through practical use cases.

Smarter Contracts

Universal structured data format for the creation and interactivity of digital documents, developed as part of the Lawtech Sandbox

Legal Schema Structured Data for Digital Contracts

With sector data, insights and case studies from experts from across the sector, reflect on key findings with the LawtechUK Report

Shaping the Future of Law - The LawtechUK Report 2021

Learn what the community thought about the future of remote courts

The Opportunities & Challenges of Remote Courts – Survey Results

Navigate legal services regulation in the UK with this tool developed by LawtechUK and the Regulatory Response Unit

Regulatory Navigation Tool for Lawtech Companies

Find out what the rapidly growing lawtech sector contributes to the UK economy now and in the future

Report on the economic contribution of lawtech

From insights on diversity to accessibility, find out what we learned from applications

Insights from the application phase of the Lawtech Sandbox pilot

Missed the Sandbox Pilot Showcase Event, catch up here

Sandbox showcase event

Learn what happened behind the scenes in this short video

Lawtech Sandbox journey

Supercharge your lawtech development through  the Lawtech Sandbox. Applications are now closed.

The Lawtech Sandbox

Exploring the what, why and how of a ‘legal sharing economy’

Insights from our Legal Geek session

Jenifer Swallow’s keynote from the Global Legaltech Summit 2020

Lawtech: a shared opportunity

Grow your digital business with open-access guidance and services

Tech Startup & Scaleup - Government Resources

Two-part series on legal services and dispute resolution in the post-Covid digital age

Lawtech debates

Insights from Amplified Global’s industry and regulatory roundtables

Making legal terms accessible for everyone

Answers to key legal questions in support of certainty, confidence and utilisation

Cryptoassets & Smart Contracts – Legal Statement

Guidance and template agreement to facilitate effective data sharing

Legal Data Sharing Agreement Template & Toolkit

New tool for efficient and effective dispute resolution in a digital world

UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules & Guidance

What is like to work in lawtech and legal innovation? Learn from others' journeys in these short videos

Lawtech Innovators & Disruptors - Trailblazer Journeys

Explore founder and investor information, job opportunities, firm valuations and more in this free to access database

"It is a ground-breaking initiative to bring regulators together in this way to support technology innovators in law."

The Regulators

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