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📈 Monday data: More AI, more justice?

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  • In England and Wales, 60% of defendants in defended county court claims this year did not have a lawyer.
  • In the US, more than nine in ten consumers sued for debt face the case without one.
  • AI may give some of them a new way to argue their case.
  • In Australia, Greg Baker, a computing academic, used AI to challenge his employer’s refusal to make his casual job permanent, and the Fair Work Commission ruled in his favor – an early example of a self-represented litigant winning with help from AI agents.

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  • [1]📈 Monday data: More AI, more justice?
    Exponential View (Azeem Azhar) ¡ Oct 5, 01:51 PM
    Latest in our AI Investment Brief: An update on AI revenues + what’s happening with AI spending.
    In England and Wales, 60% of defendants in defended county court claims this year did not have a lawyer.

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