In the case of Evans Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2025] UKFTT 1112 (TC) - https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukftt/tc/2025/1112#download-options - a judge in the Upper Tax Tribunal used AI to assist him in the making of a case management decision. The decision did not involve any ruling on witness credibility and the use of AI was for summarising the documents and not for legal research. The judge stated that this was a proper use of AI, namely as a tool. The judge acknowledged...

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a Palestinian Doctor practising in the UK, was subject to an interim suspension by the GMC. See https://www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts-rod-files/dr-aladwan-iot_new_suspension_15-months.pdf for the decision. The case largely concerns allegations of antisemitism. I do not know what definition of antisemitism is being employed by the GMC. They may be using the IHRA definition. This definition appears to include the making of empirical claims, which in turn would not ...

I have written on this blog before about ‘Anarcho-Tyranny’; see https://www.jsc-chambers.co.uk/post/anarcho-tyranny-joseph-chiffers . An almost perfect example of this has been provided recently by the case of Elizabeth Kinney, an alleged assault victim who in a private message to a friend, described the alleged perpetrator as a “faggot” [1] ; see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15302729/Assault-victim-convicted-homophobic-hate-crime.html To quote from the article: “At Sefton...