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Morgan Currie, Lecturer in Data & Society, University of Edinburgh

AI use by UK justice system risks papering over the cracks caused by years of underfunding

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More than a decade of underfunding by successive governments has left the UK’s justice system in crisis. There is now a significant backlog in cases and court dates are being cancelled due to logistical problems.

The justice system in the UK is not unified and instead consists of three separate legal systems across the jurisdictions of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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