The first time you walk into a Magistrates' Court, the building itself can feel like it was designed to unsettle you.

Litigants in person considering using AI tools in their case preparation There is a version of this article that would tell you AI is a revolution for litigants in person. That it levels the playing field. That with the right prompts you can generate the kind of legal arguments that would take a barrister years of training to construct, and walk into court with the confidence of someone who has done this a hundred times. That version would be misleading. There is also a version that would...

Preparing court documents in England and Wales If there is one thing that separates a litigant in person who walks into court with authority from one who walks in overwhelmed before the hearing even begins, it is the bundle. Get the bundle right and you signal to the judge, to the other side, and to yourself that you know what you are doing . Get it wrong and you can find yourself adjourned on the first day, penalised in costs, or — at best — scrambling to find documents in a disorganised...