The Gujarat High Court in India has prohibited the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in any aspect of judicial decision making for its judges, cautioning that unchecked use of AI might cause subtle erosion of public trust in the judiciary.
The HC has also barred the use of generative AI tools in authoring any judgment, final order, or binding legal ruling, for the judicial staff.
The policy also prohibits access to personal details of parties, ongoing proceedings, evidence material and other sensitive data to popular Gen AI tools, while allowing their narrow use for only research purposes.
In a strongly worded internal policy document on the “Use of AI in Judicial and Court Administration,” the Gujarat HC has observed that “Unregulated or unchecked use of AI carries the grave risk of gradual over-reliance on AI, less use of human mind, unintended biased decision making, which may cause subtle erosion of public trust in the human-centric nature of adjudication.”
The HC’s policy has not included advocates since it’s an internal document but mentions the rising cases of “AI induced legal hallucinations” finding its way to petitions.
“Recognizing recent global and national developments—including documented instances of AI-generated fictitious judgments leading to misconduct findings, judicial warnings against unverified AI citations, and urgent need for safeguard, it is necessary to adopt a restrictive stance towards the use of AI,” read the policy.
Gujarat HC’s policy follows similar guidelines issued by Kerala High Court in 2025 on the use of AI.
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