Law professor Chris Rudge The Australian government paid consultants Deloitte 440,000 Australian dollars ($290,000) for a report on the use of automated penalties in Australia’s welfare system. The final version of the report was placed on the Department of Employment and Workplace Relation, but that’s far from the end of the story. Law professor Chris Rudge at Sydney
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Judge calls out that “nearly half the pages” in an attorney’s brief contained hallucinated citations.
J Michael Dockery just published this to linked in Another week, another lawyer in trouble for AI hallucinations – the judge here calls out that “nearly half the pages” in this attorney’s brief contained hallucinated citations. The court provides an interesting sampling of the errors that were found, starting on page 10. Some of…
AI Hallucination Cases….. This database tracks legal decisions in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of arguments.
Damien Charlotin writes This database tracks legal decisions1 in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of arguments. It does not track the (necessarily wider) universe of all fake citations or use of AI in court filings. While seeking to be exhaustive (394 cases identified so far), it is a…
Man uses ChatGPT in seeking personal protection order against ex-wife, court finds 14 cases cited don’t exist
When questioned, the man admitted to using ChatGPT but said he had failed to verify the cases before including them in his submissions. SINGAPORE: A family court magistrate considering personal protection order (PPO) applications from two former spouses realised that none of the 14 cases cited by the self-represented man exist. When probed, the man…
Lawsites report…”Bench IQ, AI Startup Led By Former ROSS Cofounder to Understand Judges’ Decision Patterns, Raises $5.3M Seed”
Maybe he should have created this first and then ROSS! Ambrogi In February 2024, I wrote here about the launch of Bench IQ, a company that is using generative AI to provide comprehensive insights into the decision-making patterns of judges — based not just on their written rulings, but also their rulings from the bench and other…
Linked In – Australia: David Lim, “In May v Costaras [2025] NSWCA 178, the court dismissed a property appeal but delivered a powerful warning on the reckless use of generative AI in legal proceedings.”
AI in the Courtroom: A Landmark Warning for the Legal Profession The NSW Court of Appeal has issued a landmark judgment that every lawyer needs to read. In May v Costaras [2025] NSWCA 178, the court dismissed a property appeal but delivered a powerful warning on the reckless use of generative AI in legal proceedings. A self-represented…
SLAW- Jordan Furlong – Another Brilliant Idea! the Hidden Dangers of Sycophantic AI
Author’s Note: After I wrote this column, but a couple of days before it was published, Open AI upgraded its GPT Chatbot from version 4 to version 5. Among the negative reactions to the change was a sense that ChatGPT-5’s artificial personality had becomes more distant and less complimentary. As you’ll see below, I don’t think…
Podcast – Lawdroid Manifesto Interviews Caseway Founder: Alistair Vigier
Join me as I interview Alistair Vigier, co-founder of Caseway, a legal AI platform that’s shaking up the Canadian legal establishment. In this compelling podcast episode, Alistair shares his unconventional journey from military service through various entrepreneurial ventures to founding one of Canada’s most talked-about legal AI companies. He dives deep into how his military…
Newsletter cover image EU AI Code of Practice: Comprehensive Newsletter – Jana Saad
Innovate Law Review Monthly updates, news and info to help you excel in the world of law! EU AI Code of Practice: Comprehensive Newsletter Jana Saad Read this article on LinkedIn to join the conversation Read on LinkedIn Introduction On July 10, 2025, the European Commission published the final General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, a voluntary yet…
When AI Gets an Email: What Digital Workers in Banking Mean for Courts and Law Firms
A recent Wall Street Journal article reported something that would have sounded outlandish just a few years ago. Apparently, some major banks are now giving artificial intelligence agents their own email addresses and Microsoft Teams logins. And these “digital workers” are not just assisting behind the scenes. They’re being treated as members of the team.…