AI Action Plan for Justice

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) released the ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’, published 31 July 2025, outlines their three-year strategy to outline how the department intends to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI)I to enhance the efficiency, fairness and accessibility of the Criminal Justice System.

For this, the MoJ considers ‘AI’ as an umbrella term for tools including machine learning, large-language models, emerging agentic capabilities. This also includes technology that enables machines to process data, make inferences, learn and provide recommendations that traditionally require human intelligence.

The plan is scheduled for implementation over a three-year period and outlines the following strategic priorities:

The MoJ is developing a network of AI Champions to foster support, promote the effective use of AI tools, and escalate issues to the Justice AI Unit. Though, this initiatvie differs from the original Government AI Champion medel, which focused on sector-specific leaders collaborating with industry and government the shape AI adoption strategies.

Aligning with the ‘scan, pilot, scale approach’, the three-year road map will include establishing strong foundations, scaling what works and building on early success.

To do so, the MoJ will align its priorities across three cross cutting principles:

Working with AI within the law, protecting individual rights and maintaining public trust through rigorous testing, clear accountability and careful oversight.

AI should support human judgement rather than replace it, maintaining the independence of oversight bodies and decision makers.

Implementing a user centric design, solving the real problems of victims, offenders, staff, judges and citizens.

Minimising costs and effort by building solutions that can be used across the board.

As such, the AI Action Plan for Justice intends to leverage the benefits that generative AI has to offer and improve the delivery of justice across the system.

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