Civil justice continues to lie at the heart of the Rule of Law. The rules and principles governing civil procedure are vitally important. As Lord Justice Birss recognised in his foreword to the most recent edition of Zuckerman, the exercise of identifying the principles and making the rules is a task that has been greatly complicated by the advent of digital technology as the primary medium of communication in civil litigation. I would add, and this is my principal theme this evening, that those complexities have only been further intensified, perhaps by an order of magnitude, in very recent times by the rapidly developing influence of AI …
Lord Briggs of Westbourne, Justice of the UK Supreme Court, AI and Civil Justice: Preparing for the Tsunami (Keynote Address to Oxford ‘Civil Justice Systems In The 21st Century’ Conference, 20 May 2026).
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