Another cautionary tale on the perils of uncritical reliance on generative artificial intelligence (AI) arrived in the English High Court in April 2025. The court found a barrister and a firm of solicitors responsible for including fictitious case citations in formal submissions before the court. The court’s response was uncompromising: counsel and her instructing solicitors

This week, the UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) announced it has granted authorisation to Garfield.Law Ltd as the first Alternative Business Structure permitted to deliver regulated legal services directly via artificial intelligence (AI).

Unlike traditional firms (a good portion of whom already harnessing AI for various tasks including the provision of legal services to clients

The Constitutional Court’s unanimous April 2025 judgment in Prithilal v Akani Egoli (Pty) Ltd and Another restates the narrow circumstances in which a court may depart from the ordinary party‑and‑party scale and award costs on the punitive attorney‑and‑client scale.  Ms Prithilal, although successful in joining Akani to her delictual action, had been ordered by the

A February 2025 high-court full bench-appeal judgement examined the legal principles underpinning the defence of voluntary assumption of risk. The case arose from an incident during a student protest at a university campus, where a security guard discharged his firearm, using non‐lethal ammunition in the form of rubber bullets and ceramic paint balls, and injured

In a January 2025 judgment the High Court offers a stark reminder of the ethical obligations that underpin legal practice when placing information before a court. What began as a routine application for leave to appeal escalated into a significant cautionary tale, culminating in a referral of the legal practitioners to the Legal Practice Council

In an October 2024 judgement, the Pretoria High Court examined the rejection of an insurance claim following a motor vehicle accident. On 26 December 2016, the claimant was driving his insured sports car when he collided with a wall. He filed a claim with his insurer, which was rejected on the grounds that he had