Gujarat High Court bans artificial intelligence in judicial decision-making and judgment drafting
Judges and court officers barred from using AI for adjudication or judgment drafting
Change
Gujarat High Court prohibited any direct or indirect use of artificial intelligence (AI) for adjudicatory functions — including fact-finding, evidence classification, sentencing, bail determinations, and authoring or substantially composing judgments — and mandated that a qualified human officer verify any AI output before it is acted upon.
Why it matters
Automated tools are now confined to narrow administrative and research support; anonymised, metadata-driven case allocation and verified legal research remain permitted. Generating, fabricating, embellishing, or altering evidence with AI is forbidden and no identifying or privileged information may be entered into AI systems; a named human officer must verify and accept responsibility before any AI-derived content is filed or communicated.
Implications
- — Judges and judicial officers — must immediately stop using any AI tool for decision-making, reasoning, evidence evaluation, sentencing, bail, or drafting final orders — otherwise they remain personally responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of those orders.
- — Court registrars and clerks — must immediately cease using AI to sort, classify, organise evidentiary material or to input names, addresses, or other identifying information into AI tools — otherwise any AI-derived material cannot be filed or used in proceedings and staff remain personally accountable.
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