The UK’s AI-enabled law-firm experiment becomes a global regulatory marker

The SRA’s authorisation of AI-enabled firms such as Garfield.Law and LawFairy is increasingly being read internationally as a test of how far regulated legal service delivery can move away from the human-lawyer default. The critical issue is not whether AI replaces lawyers generally, but how regulators supervise narrow, standardized, technology-led services with redress and accountability built in.