Speeches by Russell.

“Have you read Baroness Harman’s report, “Independent review of bullying and harassment at the Bar”?”

“One of the elements of the report refers to the fact that judicial appointments were not apparently liaising in any way with the Bar Standards Board. Do you feel that indicates a failure on your part?”

“SSB Law ran a portfolio funding business model which the Civil Justice Council has recommended should be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as a type of loan. Do you agree with that?”

“That is super. I have one last, very short point that I want to make. In my constituency, there is an ongoing problem with leaseholders whose estates have subsequently not been adopted, who do not understand the service charges they are going to be subject to on an ongoing basis and who have not understood the risks as…”

“In terms of the specific review about the information you had about PM Law, when will that be complete?”

“In theory, that all sounds fantastic. There are obviously significant problems with AI models hallucinating. There are significant problems with AI models having inbuilt biases, in respect of both race and sex. How does your current regulatory strategy look at that?”

“How is the SRA responding to allegations of mis-selling with regard to high-volume no win, no fee claims?”

“That is super. I have one last, very short point that I want to make. In my constituency, there is an ongoing problem with leaseholders whose estates have subsequently not been adopted, who do not understand the service charges they are going to be subject to on an ongoing basis and who have not understood the risks as…”

“Yes.”

“On that topic, I am a solicitor—I practised for nearly 14 years—and I have never heard of this website. I spent a year supervising in a law centre, and I am not aware of you having any contact with our law centre about this in that time. You say that you do a lot of promotional activity, but I was a local councillor fo…”

“How is the SRA responding to allegations of mis-selling with regard to high-volume no win, no fee claims?”

“Have you read Baroness Harman’s report, “Independent review of bullying and harassment at the Bar”?”

“It might be. It depends if the AI is hallucinating. It depends if the AI is trustworthy.”

“You just talked about Garfield AI, and that is an extremely interesting model. Do you feel that your regulatory framework works?”

“In terms of the specific review about the information you had about PM Law, when will that be complete?”

“What extent of protection do you think the public need from AI?”

“The reality is that if you have an ongoing legal matter and you need ongoing support, you do not want to upset your lawyer by putting in a formal complaint about them, let alone complain to the SRA in any way, shape or form. My gut feeling is that if you did some survey work of the type that you have described of peopl…”

“Yes.”

“SSB Law ran a portfolio funding business model which the Civil Justice Council has recommended should be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as a type of loan. Do you agree with that?”

“Do you think that that discloses any areas in which you should function differently?”