{"id":586737,"date":"2026-04-05T09:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:04:08","slug":"ai-use-in-australian-court-cases-is-rising-as-federal-court-chief-justice-says-use-needs-to-be-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586737\/","title":{"rendered":"AI use in Australian court cases is rising as Federal Court chief justice says use needs to be supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with a surge in cases brought by self-represented litigants, the leaders of some of Australia\u2019s top courts are calling for a closer embrace of artificial intelligence, even as their colleagues at the Fair Work Commission blame the new technology for driving a flood of bogus claims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedcourt.gov.au\/digital-law-library\/judges-speeches\/mortimer-cj\/mortimer-cj-20260227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">In a speech<\/a>, Chief Justice of the Federal Court Debra Mortimer acknowledged the spike in claims by people without legal representation and accepted that their use of AI for \u201clegal advice and assistance\u201d had caused \u201cexpanding workload issues and errors\u201d for judges and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faced with a surge in cases brought by self-represented litigants, the leaders of some of Australia\u2019s top courts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-586737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}