STC17832-2025: annulment of a judgment based on non-existent jurisprudential citations
Supreme Court of Justice, Civil Cassation Chamber (Corte Suprema de Justicia, Sala de Casacion Civil)
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The Supreme Court annulled a Sincelejo Superior Tribunal ruling that quoted passages from two cassation decisions which do not exist, treating reliance on unverifiable sources as a via de hecho breaching due process, and ordered the Judicial Council and the Rodrigo Lara Bonilla Judicial School to disseminate the decision to all judges.
- Applies to
- judges, lawyers
- Effective
- 05 Nov 2025
- Current version
- Judgment, MP Adriana Lopez Martinez · 05 Nov 2025
- Last verified
- 04 Sept 2026
What the document requires
- Judicial decisions must rest on verifiable sources; fabricated citations vitiate the ruling.
- Judges owe high diligence in verifying cited jurisprudence.
- Dissemination ordered through the Judicial School.
- A companion ruling fined a lawyer 15 SMLMV under CGP arts 80-81 for ten AI-generated fake rulings.
Version history
| Version | Date | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judgment, MP Adriana Lopez Martinezcurrent | 2025-11-05 | Initial decision; reported by Infobae, official text not obtained. | official |
Sources
Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "STC17832-2025: annulment of a judgment based on non-existent jurisprudential citations" (Supreme Court of Justice, Civil Cassation Chamber (Corte Suprema de Justicia, Sala de Casacion Civil), Judgment, MP Adriana Lopez Martinez, 2025-11-05), safelegalai.com/regulation/other/co-corte-suprema-stc17832-2025 (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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