The use of AI offers enormous opportunities to lawyers. However, the potential for misuse has recently come under scrutiny in the courts, with solicitors and barristers found to have cited fake cases in pleadings, witness statements and applications as a result of the use of AI.
The President of the King's Bench Division recently summoned a number of legal representatives involved in citing fake cases to attend court to explain themselves. The judgment gives important guidance to lawyers on their obligations when using AI and explains the range of powers available to judges to ensure that lawyers comply with their duties to the court. It also calls on the legal regulators to consider urgently what further steps they should be taking regarding the use of AI: Ayinde, R (On the Application of) v Qatar National Bank QPSC & Anor [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin).
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