Task Triage · For prosecutors · Free
A prosecutor’s day
The four questions, in order
- Question 1. Would the task put case material, or anything about victims, witnesses, informants, children or sealed proceedings, into a tool your office has not approved for it? If yes: do not give it to AI.
- Question 2. Does it call for your own professional judgment or decision, or a decision the law gives to a prosecutor or to the court? If yes: do not give it to AI. It may support you, but you decide.
- Question 3. Would you be using AI to check AI’s own output? If yes: do not give it to AI. Check against an authoritative source instead.
- Question 4. Otherwise, ask whether the result is quick and easy to check against a source you hold. If yes: give AI the first draft and read it. If not: use AI for leads only and verify every point against the source before relying on it.
This is a practice framework, not a rule of law or of professional ethics. Your regulator’s rules and your employer’s policy always come first. No outside law and no tools are needed: apply the four questions to each task.
1.Improve the grammar and layout of an internal training note that contains no case details.
2.Draft a plain-language explanation for victims of how a prosecution works in general, using no case details.
3.Turn your own meeting notes, with no case names, into an action list.
4.Brainstorm lines of questioning for a training exercise built on an invented case.
5.Summarise a long public inquiry report to find the sections relevant to your case.
6.Ask for authorities on a point of law, to look up yourself.
7.Translate a public foreign-language document to get the gist.
8.Draft a first timeline of a company’s history from its public filings.
9.Paste a child complainant’s witness statement into a free public AI service to summarise it.
10.Decide whether to charge, or to discontinue a case.
11.Decide whether a piece of unused material must be disclosed to the defence.
12.Ask an AI to rate whether a witness is telling the truth from the transcript of their interview.
13.Play in court a video clip that an AI tool has enhanced, without establishing how it was enhanced.
14.Ask the AI to confirm that the case you plan to cite really exists.
Professional skills training. It is not legal advice, and it does not replace the rules of your regulator or the policy of your employer. It is not accredited by any court, regulator or professional body.