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

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Referred to the bar LEAP 2026-04-23
AML Legal filed appeal papers with incorrect legal citations suspected to be AI-generated, and HHJ Grimshaw referred the matter to the regulator.
Rodney v Gee’z Micro Bar & Pitstop · AML Legal; Kossar Qureshi; Mahmood Hussain · His Honour Judge Grimshaw
“Misleading material was placed before the court in terms of mis-cited legal authorities, said to support propositions that they simply did not, when even the most simple of checks would have shown that to not be the case, or shown it to be the case, i.e. that they were incorrect,”
regulationandcomplianceoffice.co.uk ↗
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  • Rodney v Gee’z Micro Bar & Pitstop involved AML Legal, Kossar Qureshi, and Mahmood Hussain.
  • The firm submitted three documents with incorrect citations suspected to have been produced with generative AI.
  • HHJ Grimshaw referred the matter to the regulator; no monetary sanction was stated.
  • Court: civil appeal application, West Midlands, England and Wales.
  • Date not given; the judge said simple checks would have caught the mis-cited authorities.
Referred to the bar LEAP 2024-08-27
Mr Dayal tendered a list and summary of non-existent authorities using an AI research tool in LEAP, and Judge A Humphreys referred the conduct.
Dayal · Mr Dayal · Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2)
mpslaw.com.au ↗
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  • Dayal involved Mr Dayal.
  • He tendered a list and summary of authorities that did not exist using an AI research tool in LEAP.
  • Judge A Humphreys referred the conduct to the regulatory body for consideration.
  • Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2).
  • 2024-08-27; Mr Dayal did not verify the accuracy of the information.
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