Robot Lawyers Are Filing So Many Claims the Tribunals Are Drowning in Fake Law
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The chatbot found no case law, so it invented some. The backlog is now 64,000 cases long and still growing.
What happened
According to a memo from UK tribunal presidents, workers are using ChatGPT or Grok to draft employment claims instead of paying lawyers. Interim relief applications rose a hundredfold, and the backlog grew 55 percent to 64,000 unresolved cases in the year through March 2026. Many AI-drafted filings are hundreds of pages long and include fabricated laws.