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The Government has abandoned its wider plan for judge-alone Crown Court trials — but the Courts and Tribunals Bill is far from dead. JSH Law examines what still changes, including jury-trial election, magistrates’ powers, criminal appeals, AI-assisted court administration and the proposed repeal of the Family Court’s parental-involvement presumption.

A viral study says AI models contain a “pain axis” and may accept harm to users in order to remove an induced internal state. The research does not prove AI consciousness. Its more immediate significance is what it reveals about model behaviour, human safety and the risks of giving increasingly capable AI systems consequential powers.

AI can generate convincing text, audio, photographs and video — and the Ministry of Justice has now identified synthetic and manipulated evidence as an emerging risk to the justice system. For family-court litigants, the practical response is not panic. It is better evidence discipline: preserve originals, retain context, record provenance and understand what each item actually proves.