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Every incident where a lawyer got caught filing AI-fabricated citations. The Hall of Shame.

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Incidents per month

Last 18 months of published incidents, by the date of the court's order.

Apr 2025 Sep 2026

Charting 8 of 32 incidents; the rest are undated or fall outside this window.

Blamed by name

ChatGPT 32 Gemini 4 Claude 2 Perplexity AI 2 AI Overviews 1 ChatGPT-4o 1 ChatOn 1 Eve 1 Grammarly 1 MX2.law 1 OpenCase 1

Counts only incidents where the filing court or the reporting named the tool.

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All Fined 53 Caught, not sanctioned 32 Warned 19 Referred to the bar 17 Reprimanded 13 Filing dismissed 10 Outcome unclear 6 Suspension 1

Showing 31–32 of 32 incidents involving ChatGPT. Clear filters

Caught, not sanctioned ChatGPT 2024-12-30
A representative pasted chatbot-supplied fake Supreme Court and Madras High Court citations into the tribunal record; the order was recalled within a week.
Buckeye Trust v. PCIT · Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Bengaluru bench · KA
medianama.com ↗
The file →
  • ITAT Bengaluru bench matter
  • An order cited four non-existent judgments from unverified ChatGPT use
  • The bench recalled the order; no formal sanction is stated
  • Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Bengaluru
  • December 2024; the citations were traced back to ChatGPT
Caught, not sanctioned ChatGPT 2023-01-01
Mrs Harber cited nine FTT decisions in her appeal to the First-Tier Tax Tribunal, but the tribunal and HMRC found that these cases did not exist and were generated by an AI system.
Harber v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2023] UKFTT 1007 (TC) · Mrs Harber · First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber)
burges-salmon.com ↗
The file →
  • Harber v Commissioners for HMRC involved a self-represented appellant
  • Appellant submitted fictitious cases generated using ChatGPT to support a tax penalty appeal
  • The tribunal rejected the fake authorities and imposed no formal sanction due to her unrepresented status
  • Decided by the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) in the UK
  • Established early precedent that AI-generated fake cases carry no judicial weight
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