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The Next Frontier in Family Justice Is Decision Integrity
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AI, family court reform and safeguarding: why evidence traceability, human oversight and decision integrity matter for more accountable justice.

Microsoft Copilot for Legal: Who Controls the Future of Legal AI?
Microsoft has launched Copilot for Legal. Mike Murphy highlights its distribution advantage. JSH Law examines the CMA's concerns, legal AI competition, professional duties and what this means for family justice.

AI Liability in UK Legal Practice: SRA Duties, Court Evidence and Data Protection
As AI agents move beyond answering questions to taking action, who is legally responsible when something goes wrong? This technical JSH Law analysis examines English law, professional accountability, SRA duties, court evidence, confidentiality, automated decisions, legal fees and the changing future of AI systems.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.A Human in the Loop Is Not Enough: “Humanwashing”, AI and the Future of Judicial Decision-Making
A major 2026 study found that putting a human judge back into an AI-assisted decision can largely eliminate the perceived fairness gap — even where the human review is minimal. JSH Law examines the risk of “humanwashing”, automation bias and what meaningful judicial oversight should actually require.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.Can AI Prove Coercive Control? No — But It Can Help the Court See the Pattern
Coercive control often exists in patterns spread across thousands of messages. AI may help identify repetition, change and candidate evidence — but it cannot make a judicial finding. JSH Law examines Jenny Rudd's Dispute Buddy, a recent NYU London discussion with Charles Hale KC, PD12J and the line between pattern detection and proof.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.AI May Democratise Legal Drafting. Can the Courts Survive the Volume?
Generative AI may lower one of the traditional barriers to enforcing legal rights: the cost of producing legal material. But judicial attention remains scarce. JSH Law examines what happens if AI scales legal drafting faster than the court system can scale its capacity.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.If AI Does the Junior Work, Who Trains the Lawyers of 2035?
Artificial intelligence is automating many of the tasks traditionally used to train junior lawyers. If clients will no longer pay for repetitive processing, the profession must become much more deliberate about teaching judgment, ethics, strategy and client counselling.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.AI Slop, Costs and Litigants in Person: Should Courts Sanction Bad AI Use?
AI can produce 50 pages in seconds, but somebody still has to read, check and answer them. JSH Law examines Sir Robert Buckland KC’s call for courts to use existing costs powers against irresponsible AI-generated litigation — and why the answer must protect litigants in person who use AI responsibly to access justice.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.Should AI Become a Legal Person? Imogen Rivers, Robot Rights and the Responsibility Gap
Could an autonomous AI hold legal rights, owe legal duties or become responsible when things go wrong? Drawing on Imogen Rivers' Oxford research, JSH Law examines robot rights, lethal autonomous weapons, responsibility gaps and the danger of allowing artificial personhood to become a liability shield for humans.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.AI Can State Facts. Can It Tell the Truth? Why the Difference Matters in Law
AI can generate a factually correct sentence. But can it truthfully speak in the human sense — with knowledge, belief and responsibility behind the words? Drawing on Kim and Jo's work on Heidegger and Foucault, JSH Law asks what the distinction means for witness statements, Family Court evidence and responsible legal AI.
