Interim relief claims surged 100x as workers draft lawsuits with AI
uk employment courts face a 100-fold spike in interim relief claims as workers use chatgpt and grok to draft filings, causing a 55% backlog increase and clogging the system with ai-generated fabrications.
a memo from uk tribunal presidents barry clarke and susan walker reveals that interim relief applications have surged a hundredfold, driven by workers using ai to draft legal claims for free. this contributed to a 39% rise in overall claims and a 55% increase in backlogs to 64,000 pending cases, with ai-generated filings often containing hundreds of pages of fabricated laws and unrealistic demands. the problem threatens to worsen under the new employment rights act which adds 25 new claim grounds, creating a 'tragedy of the commons' where legitimate grievances face severe delays and employers incur higher defense costs.