72 on the record · +1 this week
Topic
Fabricated citations, invented cases, and the sanctions that follow — tracked worldwide.
analysisUK
England's Divisional Court referred two lawyers to their regulators over AI-fabricated citations and warned its restraint on contempt is not a precedent.
analysisUS
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
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.
analysisUK
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
Stanford's research on legal-AI hallucination rates: general models fabricate at least 58% of the time; dedicated legal-research tools, 17% to 33%.
analysisCANADA
An Ontario lawyer filed a ChatGPT-fabricated factum, then lied about writing it — and drew a criminal-contempt referral to the Attorney General.
explainer
Plain-English definitions courts use when sanctioning AI-fabricated citations: hallucination, Hamid jurisdiction, wasted costs, Rule 11, and more.
analysisUK
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 set aside two tribunal orders built on fake AI-generated precedents and ordered the Bar Council to frame AI rules for lawyers.
report
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.
analysisUS
Two New York attorneys, six ChatGPT-invented cases, and a $5,000 sanction — the June 2023 ruling that created the legal AI hallucination era.
newsletter
A sample issue showing the weekly format: incidents worldwide, regulator watch, one analysis take, and the tracker stat of the week.