Overview

• A newly appointed Chief AI Officer will lead the Justice AI Unit, overseeing ethics, policy and deployment of AI across courts, prisons and probation services.
• A Justice AI Fellowship has been launched to attract specialists from industry and academia into government roles supporting over 60 planned AI initiatives.
• Early pilots include AI transcription of Immigration and Asylum Chamber hearings, a generative knowledge retrieval assistant covering 300+ unstructured documents, child-arrangement dispute-resolution chatbots and machine-vision processing of 8 million annual paper forms.
• All 95,000 Ministry of Justice staff are set to receive secure, enterprise-grade AI assistants by December 2025 to cut administrative tasks and enhance accessibility.
• The success of scaled deployments depends on securing sustained funding and adhering to newly defined governance protocols designed to mitigate bias, hallucinations and ethical risks.