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United Kingdom

National Overview • 0 Cases • 1 Rules • 6 Incidents

I. Jurisprudence

Date Case Title Summary Tool
No jurisprudence records found.

II. Regulation

Date Regulation Title Summary Status
2026-01-07 UK ICO statement on Grok AI on X (data protection compliance inquiry)

Law firms and advisors supporting platforms or AI vendors should expect near-term regulator information requests and heightened sc...

in effect

III. Incidents

Date Headline Summary Type
2026-01-12 UK fast-tracks offence criminalising creation of non-consensual intimate deepfakes

The UK government announced it would bring into effect, that week, a law criminalising the creation of non-consensual intimate ima...

Regulatory Acti...
2025-12-01 UK Government AI Tracker Records Surge in Judicial Hallucination Cases

By early December 2025, the UK recorded a total of 24 verified judicial incidents involving AI-generated false citations, reflecti...

Professional Ma...
2025-12-04 UK High Court Reprimands Counsel for Fictitious AI Citations

A barrister in a high-stakes commercial hearing was found to have included passages from non-existent cases generated by AI.

Professional Ma...
2026-01-16 UK legal press reports calls for judges to stop reproducing AI-fake citations in rulings

UK legal trade press reported growing calls for judges to avoid repeating AI-generated fake case citations verbatim when addressin...

Regulatory Acti...
2026-01-12 UK Ofcom opens Online Safety Act probe into X over Grok sexual deepfakes

The UK media regulator Ofcom opened a formal investigation into X, focusing on whether the platform complied with duties to protec...

Regulatory Acti...
2025-12-22 UK SRA Updates Guidance on Autonomous Sanctions Payments for Lawyers

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) updated its policy regarding payments to legal advisors under the UK’s autonomous sancti...

Regulatory Acti...

United Kingdom

Country Intelligence Report

I. Jurisprudence

No records.

II. Regulations

2026-01-07
UK ICO statement on Grok AI on X (data protection compliance inquiry)
Law firms and advisors supporting platforms or AI vendors should expect near-term regulator information requests and heightened scrutiny of GenAI features that process personal data (especially image ...

III. Incidents

2026-01-12
UK fast-tracks offence criminalising creation of non-consensual intimate deepfakes
The UK government announced it would bring into effect, that week, a law criminalising the creation of non-consensual intimate images, in response to concerns about AI-enabled sexual deepfakes circula...
2025-12-01
UK Government AI Tracker Records Surge in Judicial Hallucination Cases
By early December 2025, the UK recorded a total of 24 verified judicial incidents involving AI-generated false citations, reflecting a sharp increase in detection by courts.
2025-12-04
UK High Court Reprimands Counsel for Fictitious AI Citations
A barrister in a high-stakes commercial hearing was found to have included passages from non-existent cases generated by AI.
2026-01-16
UK legal press reports calls for judges to stop reproducing AI-fake citations in rulings
UK legal trade press reported growing calls for judges to avoid repeating AI-generated fake case citations verbatim when addressing misuse in judgments, due to concerns that reproducing bogus “authori...
2026-01-12
UK Ofcom opens Online Safety Act probe into X over Grok sexual deepfakes
The UK media regulator Ofcom opened a formal investigation into X, focusing on whether the platform complied with duties to protect UK users from illegal content linked to Grok-generated non-consensua...
2025-12-22
UK SRA Updates Guidance on Autonomous Sanctions Payments for Lawyers
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) updated its policy regarding payments to legal advisors under the UK’s autonomous sanctions regimes.