Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Judicial Guidance (October 2025)
Updated guidance to assist Judicial Office Holders in relation to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been published today. It replaces the guidance document issued in April 2025.
The refreshed guidance adds to the glossary of common terms and expands on the risks of bias in training data and AI hallucinations which generate incorrect or misleading information. It provides further advice on confidentiality, reminding judicial office holders not to enter private information into public AI tools, and signposts where to report any inadvertent disclosures as data incidents.
Lord Justice Birss, Lead Judge for Artificial Intelligence, said: “The use of AI by the judiciary must be consistent with its overarching obligation to protect the integrity of the administration of justice and uphold the rule of law. I welcome the publication of the latest AI Guidance, which reinforces this principle and the personal responsibility judicial office holders have for all material produced in their name. I encourage all judicial office holders to read the guidance and apply it with care.”
The updated guidance applies to all judicial office holders for whom the Lady Chief Justice and Senior President of Tribunals are responsible, their clerks, judicial assistants, legal advisers/officers and other support staff.
Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill
Lady Chief Justice of England & Wales
Sir Geoffrey Vos
Master of the Rolls
Lord Justice Dingemans
Senior President of Tribunals
Lord Justice Colin Birss
Lead Judge for Artificial Intelligence