guidance diffAUSTRALIA
Australia's law-society AI guidance: the joint statement and state guides
Australian regulator guidance on generative AI — Queensland's Guidance Statement 37, the three-regulator joint statement, and the NSW solicitor's guide.
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Daman Kaur
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Founder of LegalAI Space, building SRA-native AI governance for law firms. Writes about AI safety, regulation, and accountability in legal practice.
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analysisUK
Ayinde and Al-Haroun: England's Divisional Court sets the rule on AI-fabricated citations
England's Divisional Court referred two lawyers to their regulators over AI-fabricated citations and warned its restraint on contempt is not a precedent.
guidance diffCANADA
Canada's law-society AI guidance: BC, Ontario, Alberta, and the CBA
The version record of Canadian law-society generative-AI guidance — LSBC (2023), the LSO white paper (2024), Alberta's Rules of Engagement, and the CBA toolkit.
analysisUS
The $110,000 Oregon AI-sanctions case, and what the coverage got wrong
Oregon's ~$110,000 AI-sanctions case: terminating sanctions for fifteen fake cases and eight fabricated quotations, and why the headline figure is an aggregate.
analysisAUSTRALIA
Dayal: the first time an AI misuse referral reshaped a lawyer's right to practise
A solicitor filed four AI-invented authorities; the court's referral led the regulator to bar him as a principal and impose two years' supervision.
explainerUKEU
Does the EU AI Act apply to UK law firms?
The EU AI Act can reach a UK firm when its AI output is used in the EU. What the extraterritorial scope, the AI-literacy duty, and the deferred deadlines mean.
reportEU
The EU AI Act so far: every milestone from adoption to mid-2026
A dated, primary-sourced timeline of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689: entry into force, the phased application dates, and the Digital Omnibus deferrals.
analysisUK
Harber v HMRC: the first reported UK case of AI-invented case law
The first reported UK case of AI-invented case law: a litigant cited nine ChatGPT-fabricated decisions to the Tax Tribunal, which found them fake.
report
How often does legal AI hallucinate? What the studies actually measured
Stanford's research on legal-AI hallucination rates: general models fabricate at least 58% of the time; dedicated legal-research tools, 17% to 33%.
guidance diffIRELAND
Ireland's AI guidance for lawyers and judges: the version record
The Law Society of Ireland's GenAI guidelines, the Judicial Council's guidelines for judges, and the Court of Appeal's five principles — dated and sourced.
analysisCANADA
Ko v. Li: how a ChatGPT factum became a criminal-contempt referral in Ontario
An Ontario lawyer filed a ChatGPT-fabricated factum, then lied about writing it — and drew a criminal-contempt referral to the Attorney General.
report
Legal AI by the numbers: adoption, training, and the governance gap
Verified figures on AI in legal practice — UNESCO's 44% use vs 9% trained, the IBA's 57% cross-border, ILTA's 80% GenAI, and CLOC's 30% in-house.
explainer
Legal AI glossary: the terms that decide cases
Plain-English definitions courts use when sanctioning AI-fabricated citations: hallucination, Hamid jurisdiction, wasted costs, Rule 11, and more.
roundup
Legal AI safety: a curated reading list of primary sources
The judgments, court rules, regulator guidance, and research worth reading first on AI in legal practice — annotated and grouped by who needs them.
analysisUK
Pinsent Masons self-referred to the SRA after AI invented an insolvency rule
In Cork v Smith, a junior solicitor's AI tool fabricated the text of a rule that does not exist. Pinsent Masons self-referred to the SRA.
analysisINDIA
India's Supreme Court: a ruling built on AI-hallucinated cases is 'no decision in law'
India's Supreme Court set aside two tribunal orders built on fake AI-generated precedents and ordered the Bar Council to frame AI rules for lawyers.
guidance diffSINGAPORE
Singapore's legal AI guidance: courts, ministry, and Law Society
Singapore's legal AI guidance, dated and sourced: the Supreme Court's 2024 circular, the Ministry of Law's 2026 sector guide, and the Law Society advisory.
analysisSOUTH-AFRICA
South Africa's regulator vacuum: courts doing the LPC's job on AI
South Africa's Legal Practice Council has published no guidance on lawyers' AI use — so its courts are referring practitioners to it instead, case by case.
report
Three years of legal AI hallucinations: the record from 2023 to 2026
From Mata v Avianca to a $110,000 Oregon sanction: what the verified record of AI-fabricated citations shows about courts, regulators, and the firms involved.
guidance diff
AI guidance beyond the big jurisdictions: India, Brazil, Hong Kong, the Gulf
AI guidance in India (Kerala), Brazil (CNJ Res. 615), Hong Kong, and the Gulf (QFC) — judicial and regulator documents beyond the big jurisdictions.
guidance diffUK
UK judicial AI guidance: the version history, December 2023 to October 2025
How the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary's AI guidance for judges in England and Wales changed across three versions: Dec 2023, April 2025, and 31 October 2025.
guidance diffUK
UK legal-profession AI guidance: version histories for solicitors and barristers
The version record of the SRA, Bar Council, and Law Society guidance on generative AI — what each says now, and when it changed.
reportUS-FEDERAL
US federal court AI standing orders: who requires what
No national US rule governs AI in filings. A primary-sourced registry of representative federal judges' standing orders: certify, disclose, or prohibit.
analysisUS
Mata v Avianca: the case that started it all
Two New York attorneys, six ChatGPT-invented cases, and a $5,000 sanction — the June 2023 ruling that created the legal AI hallucination era.
explainerAUSTRALIA
What NSW Supreme Court Practice Note SC Gen 23 actually prohibits
New South Wales runs the strictest AI court rule in the common-law world: affidavits must declare AI was NOT used. Here is what the practice note requires.
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This week in legal AI safety — Issue #0 (sample)
A sample issue showing the weekly format: incidents worldwide, regulator watch, one analysis take, and the tracker stat of the week.