header-logo header-logo

15 September 2023
Issue: 8040 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Artificial intelligence , Cyber , Technology
printer mail-detail

NLJ this week: Human ingenuity & AI’s potential in the litigation sphere

137496
How will artificial intelligence (AI) affect litigation and disputes? Could it improve access to justice? Bring costs down? To what extent and in what areas will it speed the preparation process up? In this week’s NLJ, Eimear McCann, commercial director at TrialView, looks at the range of uses of AI in disputes and considers how this might develop in future.

As McCann notes, ethical issues are being raised: ‘With growth comes risk, and in the context of AI, we are all too aware of privacy, ethics and IP concerns.

‘Users are naturally querying ownership of AI algorithms, with concerns around specific and non-specific AI, and around any data leaving a contained platform or site.’

However, McCann writes that a ‘definitive inflection point’ has been reached in the journey of AI in litigation and disputes. 

Read more on AI here.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
back-to-top-scroll