# Should AI Decide Your Court Case? This Judge Says Yes

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> **Original Source**: [Wired AI](https://www.wired.com/story/geoffrey-vos-uk-judge-ai-legal-profession-challenges/)
> **Author**: Joel Khalili (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
> **Category**: POLICY
> **Tags**: AI, Wired AI, policy

## Executive Summary
One of England's top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn



## Full Coverage
Under the latest guidance , judges in England are advised to confine their use of AI to administrative tasks, and Vos tells WIRED he uses Microsoft Copilot all the time to locate far-flung documents and summarize large bodies of text. But recently, he visited a court in Shenzhen, China, where civil disputes are already being decided by judges with heavy assistance from AI . Impressed by what he saw, Vos believes that courts across the globe should consider following

That road is littered with pitfalls. Multiple lawyers have been caught citing case law hallucinated by AI, and in a first for the UK, somebody recently lost their license to practice in part because they misused the technology. Meanwhile, with chatbots as their legal counsel, litigants are flooding the courts with an unprecedented number of claims, some of them bogus

Yet Vos remains convinced that AI will someday help resolve civil disputes more rapidly and in ways that cost far less. While complicated commercial disputes and sensitive family cases might require a human judge, he believes that personal injury claims, low-value professional negligence cases, and the like could easily be adjudicated by AI

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