As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly fill in your small claims court form.

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 the relevant small claims guidance and form or online money claim service on GOV.UK, and identify whether your case is in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
   2. Gather the agreement, invoices, receipts, messages, photographs, payment records, previous complaints and any letters before action, then make a dated chronology from them.
   3. Write down the claimant's and defendant's exact legal names and service addresses, the amount claimed, how you calculated it, and what outcome you want.
   4. Remove unnecessary private information from copies of your documents and paste the remaining facts, chronology and document text into the prompt.
   5. Answer the chatbot's questions and ask it to produce the field-by-field draft, keeping [MISSING] wherever you have not supplied a fact.
   6. Compare every name, date, amount and quotation in the draft with the original documents, and compare the form fields and filing route with the current GOV.UK instructions.
   7. Ask a solicitor or the court service to check any uncertain legal basis, limitation issue, jurisdiction question, interest claim or proposed remedy before you submit the form.
   8. Enter the checked answers into the official court service yourself, save a copy of everything filed and keep the evidence in the order used in your statement.

   Prompt

   Help me prepare a draft for my UK small claims case, but do not submit anything and do not present this as legal advice. First identify whether the case is in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, and whether I am using the relevant online money claim service or a paper court form. If that information is missing, ask me for it before drafting.
   
   Use only the facts and documents I provide. Invent nothing, fill no gaps, and mark missing information as [MISSING]. Separate facts from assumptions. Do not decide that I will win, do not invent a legal basis, and do not recommend a remedy unless it follows from the form instructions or an official GOV.UK source I provide.
   
   After asking any necessary questions, produce:
   1. A field-by-field draft matching the current form or online service, in the same order as the fields.
   2. A short chronology with dates, or [DATE MISSING] where I have not supplied one.
   3. A table of each amount, showing the source document and arithmetic.
   4. A list of evidence to attach or keep, without creating evidence.
   5. A list of fields and legal points that I must check with the court or a solicitor before filing.
   6. A final filing checklist covering names, addresses, jurisdiction, limitation, amount claimed, interest, court fee, service details and confirmation that every statement is true.
   
   Do not include private information that is not needed for the draft. Tell me clearly which parts I can check against my records and the official court instructions, and which parts need a solicitor's review. Here is the information and document text: [PASTE YOUR FACTS AND DOCUMENT TEXT HERE]

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