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Garfield.Law keeps safeguards at the centre of the AI-firm debate

The SRA’s Garfield authorisation remains a useful case study because the regulator described safeguards around confidentiality, conflicts, hallucination risk, client approval, supervision and named solicitor accountability.

BY TRANSATLANTIC DESK · MAY 20, 2026 · 1 MIN READ

The SRA’s Garfield authorisation remains a useful case study because the regulator described safeguards around confidentiality, conflicts, hallucination risk, client approval, supervision and named solicitor accountability. For firms, that is the operational template: narrow scope, controlled outputs, human accountability and insurance before scale.

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