{"id":245906,"date":"2026-05-14T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:40:14","slug":"ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Justice pilots AI to transcribe court hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings-879be06b\">Ministry of Justice pilots AI to transcribe court hearings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings-879be06b\">https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings-879be06b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 09:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"letsdatascience.com\">letsdatascience.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[21px] text-stone-700 leading-[1.45] font-serif font-light pb-7 pr-4 max-w-[68ch]\">The UK Ministry of Justice has launched a study to test whether its in\u2011house artificial intelligence transcription tool, <span class=\"font-medium text-neutral-900\">Justice Transcribe<\/span>, can produce accurate court transcripts at lower cost, reporting by Law360 and UKAuthority shows. The pilot, led by HM Courts &#038; Tribunals Service, will compare AI output against contracted human transcribers to assess accuracy before any wider rollout, Law360 reports. Campaigners and victims&#8217; groups have highlighted steep fees for courtroom transcripts, with The Conversation reporting one woman was quoted <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">\u00a330,000<\/strong> for a full trial transcript. Minister for Courts and Legal Services Sarah Sackman KC said AI could boost transparency and access to justice, and the government has already said victims will receive free transcripts of judges&#8217; sentencing remarks from <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">spring 2027<\/strong>, per UKAuthority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings-879be06b\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Justice pilots AI to transcribe court hearings https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings-879be06b Publish Date: 2026-05-14 09:53:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/732708\/original\/file-20260428-57-4x3xk7.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C0%2C3120%2C1560&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-245906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245908,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245906\/revisions\/245908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}