Family court judges use victim-blaming language in domestic abuse cases, finds AI project

Family court judges use victim-blaming language in domestic abuse cases, finds AI project

Research by herEthical AI reveals attitude of disbelief and ‘stereotypical assumptions’ about survivors in England and Wales

Judges in the family courts are using victim-blaming and gender-biased language towards domestic abuse survivors, AI analysis of judgments and appeals in England and Wales reveals.

The findings are the result of a project called herEthical AI, which trains computers to identify attitudes among judges that it warns is resulting in the retraumatisation of domestic abuse survivors in the family courts.

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