Overview
- Punjab & Haryana High Court directed judicial officers not to use tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or Meta AI for writing judgments or doing legal research, warning that violations will be taken seriously.
- The Gujarat High Court issued a detailed policy that forbids any use of AI in adjudication, including legal reasoning, drafting binding orders, bail or sentencing decisions, or weighing evidence.
- The Gujarat policy allows narrow support uses such as verified legal research, language clean‑up that does not affect reasoning, translation or transcription with human checks, and case management based on anonymised metadata.
- The rules cover judges, staff, interns and affiliated bodies across the High Court and district courts, apply on court systems and personal devices, require disclosure and verification of any AI‑assisted work, and bar feeding confidential case data into public AI tools.
- Researchers and commentators welcomed guardrails but flagged gaps such as no required dataset audits, bias testing, explainability, audit logs or technical oversight, and urged coordinated national guidance to avoid skewed outcomes.