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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

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

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

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

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

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

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

That is great, but fundamentally my question is about when someone instructs a solicitor, and they think it is going to cost £1,000 but then it actually costs £5,000 and that expectation has not been managed from start to finish in the transaction. They may get a retrospective explanation for why that cost escalated, b

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

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?

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

You commented that the case for a review of the reserved legal activities is growing. Which reserved legal activities do you think need to change?

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

That is great, but fundamentally my question is about when someone instructs a solicitor, and they think it is going to cost £1,000 but then it actually costs £5,000 and that expectation has not been managed from start to finish in the transaction. They may get a retrospective explanation for why that cost escalated, b

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

PM Law unexpectedly closed on 2 February, putting millions of pounds of client funds at risk. What risks were the SRA aware of prior to its closure?

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

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

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

Turning to regulatory failure, you have previously apologised for not acting more quickly in recent high-profile collapses of law firms such as SSB Law. How is the SRA changing how it monitors and intervenes in firms in response to these failures?

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

Turning to regulatory failure, you have previously apologised for not acting more quickly in recent high-profile collapses of law firms such as SSB Law. How is the SRA changing how it monitors and intervenes in firms in response to these failures?

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

I would not disagree that it has potential.

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

PM Law unexpectedly closed on 2 February, putting millions of pounds of client funds at risk. What risks were the SRA aware of prior to its closure?

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

Perhaps, but as a regulator, that is quite a big assumption.

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

Have you done a review of what complaints you had about this organisation? It bought a lot of firms quite rapidly, didn’t it? Did you have ongoing complaints about it?

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

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

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

Have you done a review of what complaints you had about this organisation? It bought a lot of firms quite rapidly, didn’t it? Did you have ongoing complaints about it?

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

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?

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

Perhaps, but as a regulator, that is quite a big assumption.

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14 Apr 2026Justice Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1247)

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

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