Project overview
This exploratory project seeks to map the effects of AI (GenAI and dedicated legal apps) on access to justice and on the wider administration to justice. It proposes that the intuitive assumption that AI can plug a widening access to justice deficit must be treated with caution. Litigants-in-person are liable to be exposed to inadequate AI advice (esp by generic GenAI apps) with potentially negative repercussions in the court room. Meanwhile the administration of justice appears to be challenged by a flood of unmeritorious or trivial claims that would previously have been resolved outside the formal court and tribunal systems. The project seeks to make preliminary recommendations on the responsible use of AI by litigants-in-person.
If you are...
- a self-represented litigant and have used AI (or a legal app) to help you bring your case before a court or tribunal,
OR
- a legal practitioner and have appeared against AI-empowered litigants-in-person in courts or tribunals, or otherwise been exposed to the effects of AI in litigation,
... please get in touch. We would love to speak to you (in confidence) and hear your views.
Our email is: AIinCourts@soton.ac.uk.
If you are...
- a self-represented litigant and have used AI (or a legal app) to help you bring your case before a court or tribunal,
OR
- a legal practitioner and have appeared against AI-empowered litigants-in-person in courts or tribunals, or otherwise been exposed to the effects of AI in litigation,
... please get in touch. We would love to speak to you (in confidence) and hear your views.
Our email is: AIinCourts@soton.ac.uk.
