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Bar offers free app to report bullying and harassment

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The Bar Council has turned to artificial intelligence to help barristers report bullying and harassment quickly and anonymously. Talk to Spot, a smatphone app developed by Spot, a US tech company, will enable barristers to talk through and record contemporaneously inappropriate behaviour at work. Barristers can choose to save the report for their own records, or print the report and sent it to their chambers, employer, other bodies or the Bar Council. The Bar Council says no human, nor the Spot team, will see what a barrister discusses with Spot unless they decide to submit a report, which they can do anonymously. A global study led by the International Bar Association, published earlier this year, showed that bullying and harassment is endemic in the law.