{"id":213848,"date":"2026-05-14T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:05:09","slug":"ministry-of-justice-pilots-ai-to-transcribe-court-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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<ul>\n<li>The UK Ministry of Justice has initiated a study to evaluate the effectiveness of its in-house AI transcription tool, Justice Transcribe, in producing accurate court transcripts at a lower cost.<\/li>\n<li>The pilot program, managed by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service, will compare AI-generated transcripts with those produced by human transcribers to measure accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>Victims&#8217; groups have raised concerns about the high fees involved in obtaining courtroom transcripts, highlighting the financial burden on victims.<\/li>\n<li>One notable case involved a woman who was quoted \u00a330,000 for a full trial transcript.<\/li>\n<li>Minister for Courts and Legal Services Sarah Sackman KC believes that AI could enhance transparency and access to justice.<\/li>\n<li>The government plans to provide free transcripts of judges&#8217; sentencing remarks to victims starting in spring 2027.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/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":213850,"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":[],"class_list":["post-213848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213852,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213848\/revisions\/213852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}