Ah yes the old “It was another guy, you don’t know him, he doesn’t go to this school” alibi.

The judge in the Sandie Peggie Employment Tribunal case has laid blame on a “judicial colleague” for the numerous errors in his ruling.

Cool cool.

Wait a second.

What?

Aren’t judges kind of expected to do their own homework? If they consult colleagues isn’t it still their responsibility to get it right? Kind of like the military, where the top brass is not supposed to blame the troops for failure?

Judge Sandy Kemp insisted that he did not us AI to help him write his 312-page judgment in the case, which has now been corrected a number of times.

His claim followed a formal complaint of judicial misconduct made by retired lawyer and former part-time tribunal chair Ewan Kennedy, who said that the corrections went far beyond those permitted under section 67 of the Employment Tribunal Rules 2024, which provides for the correction of clerical mistakes.

He said it was “a very serious matter” for corrections to stray into “substantial matters”, among them substituting a word with its opposite.

Why yes, that would be a very serious matter.

Mr Kennedy said: “Suggestions have been made in the press that the falsehoods may have resulted from careless use of some form of artificial intelligence, but that can be no possible excuse. Any solicitor who did something similar in professional practice could expect immediate disqualification for life.”

But but but it was the kid next door who did it, honest.