Wednesday, September 16, 2026

JudgeGPT Experiment Boosts Case Closures in Pakistan Courts since 2024

Amazing stuff!

The situation in Pakistan: "With a backlog of 2.26 million cases and fewer than two judges per 100,000 people—compared to 22 in the EU and eight in Brazil"

"... in Pakistan, a large-scale trial of a specially designed AI tool for judges found the technology—together with appropriate training–boosted the number of cases resolved by 6.3 percent with no obvious drop in the quality of judgments. ...

They built a custom tool combining OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model (LLM) with a knowledge base of nearly 130,000 Pakistani judicial opinions and statutes, to help judges with legal research and drafting judgments.
They began offering the tool in 2024 to 1,559 trial judges—roughly half the country’s justices. ...

AI tools for judges are already being rolled out in Brazil and India ...

Some judges were also already using AI chatbots, Mehmood says, but commercial offerings performed poorly on Pakistani legal queries, frequently hallucinating case law. ..."

JudgeGPT Experiment Boosts Case Closures in Pakistan Courts - IEEE Spectrum "First large-scale trial of AI in judiciary finds 6.3 percent speed-up, fewer appeals"

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