No NZ lawyers or employment advocates have been called out for hallucinated AI... yet.

However, six self-litigants have, including one in the Employment Court and one in the Employment Relations Authority.

When we discovered Damien Charlotin’s AI legal hallucination database on 1 October 2025, there were only three cases; now there’s six, the same number as in Charlotin’s native France which has 13 times New Zealand’s population.

Should we be hanging our heads in shame?  Not really, because per capita we compare reasonably favourably with Australia (60 cases identified) and the United States (657) as at 16 February 2026 and worse, there are nearly as many lawyers as self-represented litigants.

Don’t let AI make you a laughing stock, kids.

https://www.leightonassociates.co.nz/post/we-found-a-database-of-hallucinated-ai-legal-cases 1 Oct 2025