Midlands Fraud Forum Winter Discussion - 5 December 2023

The Great Winter Discussion

(and Christmas Networking)

Tuesday 5 December 2023

16.00 – 19.00

Venue: St Philips Chambers,

55 Temple Row, Birmingham B2 5LS

Topic: “What impact will Artificial Intelligence

have on fraud? ”

AGENDA

The debate will be chaired by Ali Tabari, Barrister at St Philips Chambers and the topic of “What impact will Artificial Intelligence have on fraud? ” will be discussed by a panel of experts including:

1.    Vanessa Eyles, The Cyber Resilience Centre for West Midlands 

2.    Henry Liu, AI SME at Deloitte LLP

3.    Racheal Muldoon, Barrister at Maitland Chambers

Audience participation is, as always, most welcome and encouraged!

The MFF is also happy to take questions from attendees in advance if there is a particular question or point that you would like the panellist speakers to discuss.

As this event is organised by our Young Professional Team and we would encourage you to send a junior member of your team to this event.

SPEAKERS

Ali Tabari, Barrister at St Philips Chambers

Ali Tabari is widely recognised as a leading commercial junior, consistently ranked in the legal directories for many years. He has a busy and thriving practice focussing on heavy commercial litigation involving fraud, insolvency, company and finance aspects. His experience in those fields also leads to instructions in professional liability matters. He regularly appears in lengthy and complex trials in the High Court, and has been instructed in the Court of Appeal several times. Recent experience has seen him led in a 3-week fraud trial  worth £100m+ and sole junior (against four Silks) in a month-long conspiracy and breach of duty trial worth £30m+ in the Rolls Building. Ali is also an accredited civil/commercial mediator.

Vanessa Eyles, The Cyber Resilience Centre for West Midlands

Vanessa is a Detective Superintendent within the Regional Organised Crime Unit for the West Midlands and seconded as Managing Director of the West Midlands Cyber Resilience Centre. Vanessa aims to reach as many businesses as possible to help them become cyber safer. This is through an innovative partnership of Business, Academia and Policing. The Centre is a part Government funded, not for profit Police led business set up as part of a National strategy to help businesses get safer on line.

Henry Liu, AI SME at Deloitte LLP

Henry joined Deloitte in 2019 and has 10 years’ experience managing projects through the full EDRM on large scale litigations, investigations, arbitrations, and other forensic matters. In particular, Henry has extensive expertise in using classification AI models to implement predictive coding and unstructured data analytics, and leveraged these tools for tier 1 banks and other multi-national corporations in responses to SFO, FCA, DoJ, and other major regulators.

Henry is currently the AI SME within the Discovery team. He is leading the adoption and development of Deloitte proprietary Generative AI solutions in accelerating the e-Discovery workflow, and also works with various entities in the legal services industry on exploring additional use cases of AI in anti-fraud and AML matters.

Relevant recent experiences:

• Acted as AI expert for a magic circle law firm and their client, in a high profile litigation. Successfully implemented an AI-assisted review, and defended the results and methodology through mediation with opposing parties and an Expert Report to the court. Resulted in the judge denying opposing applications for further review by our client, and ultimately a favourable settlement outcome.
• On the panel of the ICC Arbitration’s taskforce of industry experts on using AI to detect corruption and fraud, and advising the ICC on implementing an AI-centric framework to identify corruption red flags in future arbitrations.
• Managing the development of Gen AI based tools in data summarisation, PII/Priv identification, predictive coding, and deposition preparation. Also working on use of other AI models in topic modelling and entity extraction.

Racheal Muldoon, Barrister at Maitland Chambers

Racheal is a barrister recognised internationally for her ‘Technology Law’ expertise encompassing a broad array of legal aspects concerning Web 3.0, digital assets, data, and artificial intelligence (AI). Her career highlights to date include:  

(i) securing the World’s first injunction to freeze misappropriated non-fungible tokens (NFTs);  

(ii) securing service of legal documents by NFT – a first in England and Wales and only the second in the World; 

(iii) representing an overseas institutional client in the FTX insolvency - Racheal's second cryptocurrency exchange insolvency instructions since 2019; 

(iv) representing Dr Craig Wright in the single highest-value intellectual property digital currency claim to date; 

(v) acting on behalf of several large data protection classes in class actions; and  

Nat Butcher, Forensic Technology Team, BDO LLP

Natalie is a Director in BDO’s Forensic Technology team, based in London.  She has spent approximately nineteen years in the forensic technology and e-disclosure fields, having graduated with honours with a BSc degree in information technology, business management and language.

Natalie has worked on a significant number of large e-disclosure projects throughout all areas of the process, from data scoping and collection, right through to production and trial support.  She is an expert in handling complex disclosures and is also experienced in data analytics.  Natalie has worked directly with corporate clients, in addition to their legal advisers and government bodies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Conduct Authority and the National Crime Agency.  She has worked on many multi-jurisdictional cases and where mobile laboratories have been implemented because of strict data protection rules.