AI: Current Themes & Future Trends in Public Law & Procurement Law

Tom Whittaker is a senior technology lawyer at independent UK law firm Burges Salmon LLP. He advises and trains public and private sector organisations on AI regulations and speaks at industry events on AI law and risk also. Tom is part of multiple industry AI-working groups and was ranked as a global market leader in AI law by Chambers and Partners (2024).

Azeem is a leading junior with a well-established practice across Chambers’ core areas, offering expertise in Judicial Review, Public Procurement, Competition, Information Law, and general commercial work. He is a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, advising and representing the UK government in his areas of practice. Azeem is recommended in the Legal 500 and Chambers UK as a leading practitioner across four practice areas: Administrative/Public Law, Public Procurement, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, and Community Care. He was previously Counsel to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (“IICSA” – between January 2016 and 2020).

Azeem appears regularly in the High Court and Upper Tribunal. He has undertaken cases in the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. In addition to acting as a trial and appellate lawyer, a significant part of Azeem’s is advisory.

Rebecca is a Professor of Public Law and Criminal Law. Her work increasingly focuses on the relationship of law and technology, particularly algorithmic decision making, and the ways in which the law will need to develop in order to keep pace with technological developments. Together with colleagues from the Department of Computer Science and the University of Bristol she is a co-founder of OLTEP, the Oxford LawTech Education Programme. Her work also examines optimum methods of decision-making and the use of criminal law as a form of regulation. It has been cited in the European Court of Justice, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and the High Court of Australia.