Ms Helen Dixon:

No, that does not remove the need for external support in terms of proceedings. Most of our legal fees go on external support for the 24 live litigation cases in which we are involved. There is also the Data Protection Commissioner versus Facebook and Max Schrems case, the standard contractual clauses case. There will always be a need for external support because of the volume of litigation in which we are involved.

We would have to replicate a small law firm with legal support services in our office. That would not represent an efficiency or value for money. In terms of that high number of in-house legal practitioners, some are deployed internally as legal advisers horizontally across the organisation. Others are deployed in actual investigator roles, meaning they have full-time roles in terms of the volumes we are dealing with in-house.