A.P. v. S.K. (Droit de la famille, 261234), 2026 QCCA 1092
·Quebec Court of Appeal·CASanctions
The Quebec Court of Appeal ordered a self-represented family-law appellant to pay CAD 1,000 under article 342 of the Code of Civil Procedure after he conceded that four cited judgments, including two attributed to the Supreme Court of Canada, were ChatGPT fabrications. The court held that litigants cannot assume AI output is free of hallucinations.
- Court
- Quebec Court of Appeal
- Date
- 2026-08-11
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- ChatGPT (conceded by the appellant)
- Conduct
- A self-represented appellant's memorandum in a family-law appeal cited two nonexistent Supreme Court of Canada judgments and two nonexistent lower-court judgments, with invented quotations. He conceded they were ChatGPT fabrications; the respondent had sought CAD 5,000.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- Penalty
- CA$1,000
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Verified against listed sources
- Last checked
- 2026-09-03
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “A.P. v. S.K. (Droit de la famille, 261234), 2026 QCCA 1092”, safelegalai.com/tracker/ap-v-sk-qcca-1092 (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.