Legal technology should make justice easier to understand, not harder to scrutinise.
Family Justice, Recoded is Jessica Susan Hill’s editorial series on family law, children’s welfare, domestic abuse, digital evidence, access to justice and responsible AI. It connects emerging legal and technological developments with the experience of people navigating the family courts.
The Next Frontier in Family Justice Is Decision Integrity
Changing the law, accelerating the courts and introducing AI will mean little unless we can explain how a decision was reached and whether the evidence was properly understood. A new framework for traceability, meaningful oversight and accountability.
These nine editions were published first on LinkedIn. The links below open the original articles where a direct URL is verified; otherwise they take you to the newsletter archive.
EDITION 9 · 6 OCTOBER 2026
AI Can Produce More. Can Family Justice Decide Better?
AI capacity, legal judgment, court pressure and the difference between generating more material and achieving better decisions.
How do we retain evidence provenance? How do we evaluate coercive control as a pattern rather than isolated incidents? What constitutes meaningful human oversight of legal AI? How do litigants in person understand the process without confusing technology with legal representation? And how should courts and technology teams assess decision quality alongside speed and cost?
This is commentary for practitioners, researchers, safeguarding professionals, policymakers, technology developers and people navigating the system themselves.
