Following a trial at Wandsworth County Court, the Court has given judgment for the claimant, Ms Tamires Camal Taquidir ("Ms Taquidir"), in a debt claim understood to be the first contested trial won with the support of a regulated AI law firm. Ms Taquidir recovered the sum claimed in full and defeated a counterclaim brought by the defendant.
The claimant’s pre-trial work was conducted by Garfield AI, the first wholly AI-based firm to be authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Garfield prepared the pre-action correspondence, issued proceedings, dealt with disclosure, and produced the witness statements and the trial bundle. Trial advocacy was conducted by first year tenant, Dominic Li of One Essex Court, instructed by Garfield.
The claim arose out of an oral agreement said to have been reached between the parties at a bar in Kensington some years earlier. Both the existence and the terms of that agreement were in issue, and the parties advanced conflicting accounts of what had been agreed. Following a reserved judgment, the Court found for Ms Taquidir on the claim and dismissed the counterclaim.
The case has attracted considerable national press coverage as a milestone for the use of AI in litigation, and is hailed as signalling the potential of AI in widening access to justice in lower-value claims that might otherwise go unpursued. Amongst the wider legal press, it has been reported by the Telegraph, the FT, and the Guardian.
Dominic Li, instructed by Garfield AI, acted for the successful claimant.