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Sheppard v Jillion LLC [2025] QIC (E) 3 (CTFIC0033/2025)

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In this Qatar Financial Centre Civil and Commercial Court judgment, President Lord Thomas found an anonymised Dubai-based lawyer in contempt for citing two fake QFC cases sourced from Google and persisting after challenge, breaching Article 35.2. The court imposed no penal sanction, treating the apology and publication of the judgment as sufficient.

Date of decision/order

2025-11-12

Court

Qatar Financial Centre Civil and Commercial Court (First Instance Circuit)

Jurisdiction

GULF

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Not identified in the record

Conduct

A Dubai-based lawyer, acting on an extension-of-time application, cited two non-existent QFC authorities. He first claimed he could not access the judgments online, then admitted the citations came from Google search screenshots. President Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd found the conduct intentional, not inadvertent, and a contempt of court under Article 35.3.

Consequence

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