As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot prepare a witness statement for a 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 gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the court, tribunal or arbitration directions and the relevant case correspondence, then record the jurisdiction, case reference, deadline, page or format requirements and any directions about witness statements.
   2. Gather the witness's own account, a dated chronology and the relevant contracts, emails, invoices, meeting notes and other records, keeping each document labelled and preserving the original wording.
   3. Remove unnecessary personal data from the material where possible, then paste the directions, chronology and source documents into a chatbot using the prompt above.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the missing-information list and draft, and to mark hearsay, uncertainty, unsupported claims, disputed points and documents that do not support the account.
   5. Compare every paragraph of the draft against the witness's memory and the labelled records, correcting names, dates, quotations, amounts and document references without adding anything the witness cannot honestly confirm.
   6. Send the checked draft, the source documents and the court directions to a solicitor for advice on relevance, admissibility, procedure, wording and the statement of truth before the witness signs or the document is served.

   Prompt

   Help me prepare a draft witness statement for a UK business dispute. The jurisdiction is [England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland]. The court or tribunal is [name], the case reference is [reference], and the deadline or relevant court order is [details]. The witness is [name and role], and the party they represent is [name].
   
   Use only the facts and documents I provide. Do not invent, infer or strengthen any fact. Write in the witness's first person and separate what the witness personally saw, heard or did from information received from someone else. Mark any hearsay, uncertainty, missing date, disputed point or conclusion that needs a solicitor's decision. Keep the statement chronological and use numbered paragraphs. For each important factual proposition, identify the supporting document or exhibit by its supplied label, but do not create exhibit references that I have not provided.
   
   Do not give legal advice, decide who is right, assess the merits, or state what the court should find. Do not include argument disguised as evidence. At the end, list every factual point that needs checking against the records and every procedural or legal point that must be checked by a solicitor, including any required statement of truth and court-specific format. First produce a short list of missing information, then produce the draft.
   
   Source material:
   [Paste the court order or procedural directions]
   [Paste the chronology]
   [Paste the witness's own account]
   [Paste relevant emails, contracts, invoices and other documents with clear labels]

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