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SRA v Abhishek Kumar, Case No. 12884-2026 (SDT)
·Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal·UKStrike-off / disbarment
In the United Kingdom, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal struck Registered Foreign Lawyer Abhishek Kumar off the register after he used generative AI to file false citations and misleading quotations in his defence to SRA proceedings, then used AI again in an attempted explanation that contained further errors.
- Court
- Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
- Date
- 2026-08-25
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Registered Foreign Lawyer Abhishek Kumar defended SRA disciplinary proceedings with an answer and later email containing false citations, misleading quotations and propositions generated by artificial generative intelligence. After the SRA pointed him to Ayinde, his correction email was also drafted with AI and contained further false material.
- Outcome
- Strike-off / disbarment
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal / Solicitors Regulation Authority: The Tribunal found breaches of SRA Principles 1, 2 and 5 and Code paragraph 1.4, and found Code paragraph 2.4 proved in part, arising from Kumar's AI-generated false citations, and struck him off the Register of Foreign Lawyers. It made no order as to costs. (2026-08-25)
- Status
- Verified against listed sources
- Last checked
- 2026-09-11
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “SRA v Abhishek Kumar, Case No. 12884-2026 (SDT)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/abhishek-kumar-sdt (accessed 2026-09-11). Data: CC BY 4.0.