The Rt. Hon. Lady Carmichael

Lady Carmichael was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Courts in 2016 and was elevated to the Inner House of the Court of Session in February 2025.

She served as a convenor of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland, a part time sheriff and as a deputy judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber).

She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and became an advocate in 1993. She was appointed as a Queen's Counsel in 2008, and served as Standing Junior Counsel to the Home Department and as reporter to the Scottish Legal Aid Board. She was a tutor at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission panel of counsel.

Lady Carmichael is a member of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland. She is the President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, of which she has been a member since 2019. She was allocated to sit in family actions in the Court of Session in 2022 which allocation ceased on her elevation to the Inner House. She is a member of the Civil Justice Council for Scotland and chair of the council's Access to Justice Committee.

Professor Richard Susskind

Professor Richard Susskind CBE KC (Hon) FRSE is the world's most cited author on the future of legal services. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law and for 25 years served as Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He acts as an adviser to international professional firms and national governments. Richard has been invited to speak in more than 60 countries and is the author of 11 books, translated into more than 20 languages. His two latest are How to Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed (OUP, 2025) and The Future of Law: Reflections & Predictions, the 30th anniversary edition of his 1996 book, The Future of Law. Richard is a law professor at the University of Strathclyde and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University. He wrote his DPhil on AI and law at Oxford University in the mid-1980s and, in the late 1980s, co-developed the world's first fully operational AI system for lawyers.