Plan for AI legal assistants in England and Wales ‘cannot replace funding and staff’, lawyers say
2026-06-08 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
The UK government's brilliant solution to its massive court backlog isn't hiring more staff or funding the justice system — it's slapping AI assistants into crown courts. Lawyers are already warning that chatbots can't replace actual humans in a system where people's freedom is at stake, but since when has that stopped anyone?