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And don’t forget hearings often involve questioning and cross examination - which absolutely cannot be done through ChatGPT (not least because you are not allowed your phone in court). Whether that involves you questioning another party or being questioned yourself, lawyers are needed to stand up and question or ensure that you are being questioned fairly.
it is often presented as a highly condensed and sensationalised snippet, whereas the case itself may have taken days in court, supported by hundreds of hours of preparation and thousands of pages of legal submissions. ChatGPT may therefore take incorrect information from websites, articles and blogs and pass it on in genuine error.
However, why it completely fabricates cases remains a mystery.
So when should you use ChatGPT?
AI can be very useful for answering questions and providing guidance. It can point you in the right direction and offer initial assessments. It can help lawyers (and often does) with tidying up documents, structuring ready prepared arguments, and supporting legal research.
Because of this, many law firms are embracing the introduction of AI. There are various new companies offering AI tools specifically for law firms to assist in finding correct cases and citations, forms and procedural rules. AI can help lawyers draft documents to instigate cases and check for spelling/grammar. It can auto fill forms to speed up preparation - saving time and money – and can format skeleton arguments/notes with ease and speed. It can summarise lengthy judgments and can identify specific legal points that need to be argued.
AI certainly does have its uses. But it is not a lawyer. AI is there to assist, not replace. Lawyers are still needed to ensure legal submissions are correct (and not completely fabricated). Lawyers are still required to serve
Oral submissions need to be made based on evidence that the court has heard that very day – which often cannot be prepared by ChatGPT in advance. These are skills that take years to learn and even longer to master. It requires thinking on your feet in the face of Judges, juries and prosecutors.
So whilst AI does have its uses – and it can be incredibly helpful when used properly – it’s there to work alongside lawyers. Indeed, in the Court of Appeal case referred to above, the judge went on to say:
“Used properly and responsibly, artificial intelligence can be of assistance to litigants and lawyers when preparing cases. But it is not an authoritative or infallible body of legal knowledge.
“There are a growing number of reports of ‘hallucinations’ infecting legal arguments through the citation of cases for propositions for which they are not authority and, in some instances, the citation of cases that do not exist at all.
“At worst, this may lead to the other parties and the court being misled. In any event, it means that extra time is taken and costs are incurred in cross checking and correcting errors.”
So whilst AI can be helpful with initial questions and enquiries, using it as legal representation is dangerous. Just as if you had appendicitis, ChatGPT may help you identify the symptoms, but you would not go to the shops, buy a scalpel and perform your own surgery.
Use AI as a starting point - but if you need legal representation, always seek specialist advice from a lawyer.
documents, instruct experts, and make applications and submissions. Each of which have their own deadlines, their own forms/formats, their own service requirements.
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