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Smart legal opinions, digitalisation and insolvency netting

8 February 2026 / Author(s): Philip Wood CBE, KC (Hon)
Issue: February 2026 / Categories: Spotlight
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This Spotlight article discusses the prospect of smart legal opinions by digitalisation and AI. It uses the symbolic example of insolvency set-off and netting to illustrate how the objectives of smart legal opinions could be achieved, what obstacles there are, and what the solutions might be.

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