This month, it has been revealed that a judge has used Artificial Intelligence technology to assist him in reaching a judgment in a case.
Judge Christopher McNall, while presiding over the case VP Evans (as executrix of HB Evans deceased) and others v HMRC [2025] UKFTT 1112 (TC) in the tax chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal, has made use of AI tools to summarise documents presented by the parties. These summaries were then relied upon by Mr McNall to reach his own judgment.
Mr McNall explained that he had checked the summaries for their accuracy, and assured himself of the same before placing any reliance on them. He also reiterated that he was well within his rights to use any such assistive technologies to help reach a decision in his judgment under the Practice Direction on reasons for decisions in the Civil Procedure Rules, and that, ultimately, it was his name associated with the judgment, not that of the technology.
Would you agree to the use of AI in reaching a judgment for you or your business?
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