We found a database of hallucinated AI legal cases

leightonassociates
3 days ago
1 min read

Here’s the link: AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin

We expect this database to grow quickly. There are three recorded cases in New Zealand, one in the employment jurisdiction. It’s [2025] NZEmpC 191 Cunningham v healthAlliance NZ Limited (and that lower case h is not a typo).

Mr Cunningham was self-represented. The case is otherwise not particularly interesting but Judge Merepaia King’s judgment notes:

[35] Lastly, the Court observes that Mr Cunningham’s application and submissions refer to the following cases and legal propositions:

(a) Shanmuganathan v Commissioner of Police [2022] NZHC 1094, in support of the proposition that procedural fairness includes the right to meaningfully participate; and

(b) Goodricke v Maritime Union of New Zealand Inc [2015] NZEmpC 55, in support of the proposition that the Court should order a stay where access to justice and appeal rights would otherwise be undermined.

[36] However, neither of these cases exist. This information may have therefore been provided by generative artificial intelligence. If so, Mr Cunningham is reminded that information provided by generative artificial intelligence ought to be checked before being relied on in documents filed in Court proceedings.

[37] Mr Cunningham’s application for severance is declined.

Our blogsite boasts, if that’s the right word, one AI generated blog (just before we banned AI from the site).

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