Legal
AI policy
Artificial intelligence helps us make this site, and we would rather tell you exactly how than leave you guessing. Plenty of legal information online is now produced by AI with no human checking at all. This page explains why Mediation Guide is different, and what we promise about the accuracy of what you read here.
Mediation Guide is published by Family Legal Ltd, company number 16431127, the team behind Mediate UK and Family Law Service. Family mediation is what we do professionally, and that experience shapes every page.
How we use AI
We use AI tools for drafting and research assistance. In practice that means helping us produce first drafts of guides, summarise legislation, court rules and official guidance, organise material into a readable structure, and check drafts for gaps or unclear wording. AI is good at that kind of work, and using it lets a small team keep a large library of guides current.
What AI does not do is decide what this site says. The topics we cover, the positions we take and the final wording of every page are human decisions, made by people who work in family mediation in England and Wales. We treat an AI draft the way a careful editor treats any first draft: as raw material to be questioned, checked and rewritten, not as a finished article.
A named professional checks every page
Before anything is published, it is reviewed and fact-checked by Chris Yaffes, an FMC-accredited family mediator (FMC URN 0961A). Accreditation with the Family Mediation Council is the recognised professional standard for family mediators in England and Wales, and it means the person checking our content does this work with real families every week. Each page shows its last review date, and our editorial policy sets out the full process a guide goes through before you see it.
Our commitments
These are the standards we hold every page to, whether AI helped draft it or not.
| Commitment | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| No fabricated statistics | AI tools can invent plausible looking numbers. We never publish a figure an AI produced on its own; every statistic starts from a real, named source. |
| Figures verified against official sources | Court fees, legal aid rules and scheme details are checked against gov.uk, Ministry of Justice publications and the Family Mediation Council before publication. |
| Sources cited on each page | Guides list their sources at the foot of the page, with a note of what each one verifies, so you can check our claims yourself. |
| Review dates shown | Every guide displays when it was last reviewed, so you can judge how fresh the information is before relying on it. |
Corrections
If you believe something on this site is wrong or out of date, please tell us through the contact page and point us to the page concerned. A person, not an automated system, reads every report. If you are right, we correct the page promptly and update its review date; where a correction is significant we say so on the page. Our editorial policy describes this process in more detail.
What AI will never replace here
Nothing on this site, however carefully produced, is legal advice, and no AI tool can be. Separation involves judgement calls about your children, your home and your money that depend on facts a website never sees. Our disclaimer explains when you should speak to a solicitor or an accredited family mediator instead of relying on general information, whoever or whatever wrote it.
We publish this policy because trust has to be earned, especially by a site people find at a difficult point in their lives. If you have questions about how a particular page was produced, ask us: we will give you a straight answer.