AI regulation and governance assessment and compliance support

At Handley Gill Limited we draw together our expertise in technology, data protection, human rights, public law and content regulation to inform your AI implementation, holistically advising organisations developing or seeking to deploy artificial intelligence to assess AI risk, identify and implement practical measures to improve AI safety and ethics, maintain ongoing monitoring, establish governance mechanisms and create and manage redress mechanisms, having regard to legal and regulatory obligations from data protection and intellectual property to human rights, discrimination and bias. 

We can advise on the application of the EU AI Act, as well as on applicable laws, regulations, guidance and best practice in the UK, and emerging international standards.

We have appropriate qualifications and expertise, including the IAPP Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance Professional (IAPP AIGP) certification, the University of Oxford Saïd Business School Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme and, the oxethica Certified AI Professional certification.

At Handley Gill Limited, we have developed a bespoke modular AI Risk Assessment (AIRA) aka AI Impact Assessment (AIIA) or fundamental rights impact assessment, capturing information security, data protection, human rights, IP, equality and wider ESG risks and mitigations and work with clients to draw together the relevant expertise from across their organisation to co-ordinate the conduct of AIRAs, implement their conclusions and keep them under review. We can also contribute to conformity assessments.

We can act as an outsourced/fractional AI Responsible Officer (AIRO).

In 2023, our CEO & Principal Consultant, Nicola Cain, was invited to speak at the official UK government AI Safety Summit Fringe event, where she spoke about deploying AI safely, responsibly and ethically. She is regularly invited to speak at conferences and events on implementing AI responsibly and establishing AI governance programmes, and in recognition of her expertise in this area she was personally invited to attend the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) IASEAI 2026 conference held at UNESCO in Paris.

We are delighted that, together with our client Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, we were finalists at the PICCASO Awards Europe 2025 in the Responsible AI and Data Ethics Initiative or Leadership category for our work supporting the successful deployment of live facial recognition technology.

In 2026, Nicola was named in the Foundever AI 100 UK 2026 organised by Digital Leaders, which recognises change makers for shaping how the U.K. uses AI & showing what good, responsible AI looks like in practice, in recognition of her expertise and contribution to AI regulation and governance in practice, the formation of AI policy and the advancement of AI literacy in the UK. Nicola was in the top 5 private sector U.K. AI Leaders and the top 10 UK AI Leaders overall.