United Kingdom
National Overview • 0 Cases • 1 Rules • 6 Incidents
I. Jurisprudence
| Date ↓ | Case Title | Summary | Tool |
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| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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... |