Japan's Top Court to Test AI Use in Civil Trials
Tokyo, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Supreme Court plans to examine in the next fiscal year whether generative artificial intelligence can be used in civil trials. On Monday, the top court announced its budget request for fiscal 2027, which included some 60 million yen for expenses related to the use of AI. This is the court's first budget request including such expenses. According to th...
Japan's Supreme Court intends to explore the utilization of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in civil trials during the forthcoming fiscal year. The top court disclosed its budget proposal for fiscal 2027, which allocated approximately 60 million yen for expenses associated with AI implementation. This marks the Supreme Court's inaugural budget request incorporating such expenditures.
According to the Supreme Court, settled lawsuit records will be employed in a trial test of AI utilization. Judges and other officials will feed documents into an AI system to generate, for instance, preliminary drafts of record summaries and lists of contentious issues. Moreover, the court aims to devise a mechanism to safeguard the disclosure of personal information of parties involved in lawsuits and companies' confidential trade secrets.
In January and February of this year, a team of six mid-career judges from Tokyo and Osaka district courts conducted a trial based on mock trial records.
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