#UAE #law - UAE-built AI-native legal platform Legaline Platform has launched Meta Legal Space, which it calls MENA’s first AI-powered mock trial, at Dubai AI Festival. Within the new 3D platform, law students and trainees can argue cases before an AI judge, with AI clerks, witnesses and experts, and against AI or human opposing counsel. The simulation can run cases under UAE onshore law, Dubai’s financial free zone DIFC or Abu Dhabi’s financial free zone ADGM. Registration is free for students and the platform is being offered to law schools and training providers across the region.
SO WHAT? - Now law students and young lawyers can now practice court room tactics in a virtual courtroom against human or AI adversaries. Legaline’s simulator gives regional law schools a rehearsal room that ‘moot courts’ usually reserve for finalists. Every student gets a seat, and the practice happens under the law they will actually argue. Users get to specify their jurisdiction and choose from a library of test court cases. To make the experience as lifelike as possible, witnesses wobble, judges interrupt and objections are raised. However, since this is all virtual, there is no risk and rookie mistakes cost nothing.
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Legaline Platform launched Meta Legal Space at Dubai AI Festival this week, a virtual 3D platform where where law students argue real cases against AI, or against each other.
Trainees enter a customisable virtual courtroom and argue before an AI judge. Opposing counsel can be AI or a classmate, and every role, including the clerk, can be filled by a person or by AI.
Each AI witness comes with a background, profession and manner. Honesty, reliability and composure are set before the hearing, and every witness withholds one fact that the trainee must draw out, while answers stay within the case file.
Before a hearing, trainees pick a format (litigation, arbitration or mediation) and a legal framework: UAE onshore, DIFC or ADGM. Practising lawyers write every case, and each is rated for difficulty and duration.
The launch library covers commercial, civil and labour cases. Examples include a supply contract breach, a construction defects dispute and an unfair dismissal claim before the DIFC Small Claims Tribunal. More cases will follow as practitioners contribute.
After each session, trainees receive a performance report scoring argumentation, procedural compliance and objection handling. Top results appear on a leaderboard, and every session is recorded for later review.
A licensed practitioner from the Legaline Platform network can take the judge’s seat and score a session live. Meta Legal Space cases work both for supervised classroom teaching and for private rehearsal.
Students create their own free Legaline Platform account and choose a first case straight away, while law schools and legal training providers across the region are being offered access.
Meta Legal Space joins Legaline’s AI tutor, and an AI Research Assistant covering 35 legal areas. Meanwhile, Legaline Docs drafts contracts, letters and pleadings in around 15 seconds. Legaline’s total data corpus holds over 60,000 passages across 33 jurisdictions.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
Source: Legaline
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