Community • Data governance • Completed
Reforming the Law Around the Use of Automated and Assisted Decision Making by Public Bodies: Report from a Technical Legal Workshop
Dr Natalie Byrom | 26th July 2021
This report is a summary of a technical legal workshop held online on Thursday 17 June 2021 under the Chatham House rule. The workshop was hosted by The Legal Education Foundation (“TLEF”), as part of their Fairer Systems and Smarter Justice work programmes.
The aim of the workshop was to support the Law Commission of England and Wales in their ongoing consultation on their 14th programme of law reform. This report summarises discussions held at the technical legal workshop and does not necessarily represent the views of The Legal Education Foundation or the invited speakers.
Speakers:
- Nicholas Paines QC, Law Commission of England and Wales
- Henni Ouahes, Law Commission of England and Wales
- Professor Lilian Edwards, Newcastle University
- Professor Rebecca Williams, University of Oxford
- Stephen Bonner, Information Commissioner’s Office
- Hetan Shah, British Academy
- Robin Allen QC, Cloisters Chambers
- Jeni Tennison, Open Data Institute
- Carly Kind, Ada Lovelace Institute
Organisations represented at the workshop included, the Alan Turing Institute, Brooklyn Law School, Careful Industries, the Centre for Data, Ethics and Innovation, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Royal Statistical Society.
