2025-08-23
New guidance has been issued for legal advisors in the Magistrates Courts.
Apparently there has been an unfortunate tendency for some ill-advised but self-confident people to weaponise the newly-fangled AI softwares as a means to disentangle - indeed even to make sense of - the innumerable legal provisions within the Statute Book, to the detriment of the safe handling of court cases by the professionals in whose reliable hands Court cases have been successfully conducted for centuries.
Obviously this has to be stopped, so the newly-minted Justices’ Legal Advisers’ and Court Officers’ Service (previously the independent Justice Clerks’ Society) has been properly integrated into the Ministry of Justice and has issued authoritative guidance to ensure that such nonsense doesn't affect the operations of the Courts in the future.
Whereas some confused people suggest that this guidance is somehow incompatible with the UK's Constitutional provisions, this notion should be discarded as the guidance now comes from the Ministry of Justice itself.
The self-confident Martin Geddes reports.
(This is not legal advice)
