As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft a witness statement for your business dispute.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a new document and create a source list containing the dispute title, the parties, your role and every document you may rely on.
   2. Gather the contract, orders, invoices, delivery records, emails, messages, meeting notes and relevant internal records, then arrange them in date order without changing their wording.
   3. Write your own first-person account of what you personally saw, heard, said or did, marking any remembered date, quotation or amount that is uncertain.
   4. Paste the prompt and your source list, account and relevant document extracts into an approved chatbot, asking it to draft only from those materials.
   5. Compare every paragraph against the underlying document or your own memory, correct names, dates, quotations and amounts, and remove any sentence marked [CHECK] that you cannot support.
   6. Give the draft and the source documents to a solicitor handling commercial disputes, asking them to check relevance, procedure, confidentiality, contradictions and the statement of truth before anything is filed or served.
   7. Make only the solicitor-approved factual corrections, then follow their instructions about signing, service and filing rather than asking the model to create or sign the statement of truth.

   Prompt

   Draft a factual witness statement for a business dispute in England and Wales using only the information and documents I provide below. Do not invent, infer or embellish any fact. Separate what I personally saw, heard or did from information I learned from someone else. Preserve uncertainty where my memory is uncertain. Use numbered paragraphs, a clear chronology, neutral language and headings where useful. Identify every factual statement that needs checking by marking it [CHECK]. Do not give legal advice, make legal submissions, argue the case, state whether a contract was breached, or cite a rule unless I provide the exact source. Do not include facts from documents unless you identify the document and I confirm it is accurate. End with a short list of missing information, contradictory evidence and questions a solicitor should resolve. Do not create or sign a statement of truth. Before drafting, list the sources you will use and any unclear chronology. Case context: [brief description]. My role and relationship to the parties: [role]. My account: [first-person account]. Supporting documents and exact extracts: [paste documents or relevant extracts]. Names, dates and amounts to preserve exactly: [list].

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.