AI use by litigants in person adding to courts burden, LCJ warns

People representing themselves in court are placing significant demands on staff and judges by using artificial intelligence to build their legal claims. The Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, warned in her annual report that extra case management is often needed to work out what remedy these litigants actually want. She noted growing AI use across the King’s Bench Division Civil List and the Administrative List. While acknowledging the technology can improve access to justice and help cut backlogs through transcription and summarisation, Baroness Carr stressed that judges are considering its dangers carefully. She insisted that court oversight and final decision-making will remain strictly human.