Ex-Lush chief’s lawyers hike costs to ensure their AI model isn’t trained by juniors

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Lawyers for the former chief executive of cosmetics giant Lush, Andrew Gerrie, have hiked their fees ahead of a trial this month, partly as they will not allow junior staff to train their AI model, ...

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