Arbuckle v. Tanner, 2026 NSCA 62
·Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (chambers)·CACosts order
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal dismissed a family-law appeal for failure to perfect it and ordered lump-sum costs of CAD 20,000 after the self-represented appellant filed AI-generated transcripts containing invented testimony and a forged transcriber's certificate. Gogan J.A. rejected his explanation that the AI had hallucinated the certification, calling the filing knowingly misleading.
- Court
- Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (chambers)
- Date
- 2026-08-12
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- A self-represented appellant used AI tools to transcribe hearing audio and assemble the appeal book. The transcripts contained phantom testimony and 39 discrepancies and carried a fabricated certification page bearing a real court transcriber's name, registration number and signature.
- Outcome
- Costs order
- Penalty
- CA$20,000
- 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, “Arbuckle v. Tanner, 2026 NSCA 62”, safelegalai.com/tracker/arbuckle-v-tanner (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.