Artificial intelligence could prove particularly useful to participants in fraud trials, a prominent criminal litigator told attendees at a legal conference organised by the Bermuda Bar Association.

Jerome Lynch, KC, said: “If you do a fraud trial, you get hundreds of thousands of pages. Nobody can read that. You simply can't. But they do need to be assimilated in some way, and so AI provides a very easy way of doing that.

“You get the documents. Put them all into a machine. That machine can read them.

“You can ask it to make summaries. You can ask it to identify particular individuals. You can ask it to identify companies.

“There are all manner of ways in which that can help.

“There’s no question that must be the future for handling fraud trials.”

He added: “So we need to embrace it, and we need to embrace it by understanding how AI can work and how the other systems that there are available can work.”

Mr Lynch was sitting on a panel about fraud at the Bar, Bench and Business in the Digital Age conference at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club organised by the Bermuda Bar Association.

He was joined on the panel by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Britain’s Master of the Rolls, Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe and Richard Horseman, head of litigation at Wakefield Quin. Dwayne Caines was the moderator.