By Eva Blandis
Publication Date: 2025-12-04 19:06:00
Three lawyers have been referred to Australian legal authorities after artificial intelligence (AI) was used to create a court document containing “erroneous citations”.
A ruling handed down in Sydney last week by the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia said a South Australian lawyer and two Victorian lawyers – one of them a King’s Counsel – submitted a document containing information obtained from AI.
The ruling said the document, submitted as part of a court appeal, appeared to have been “written using artificial intelligence” and contained “inaccurate and misleading references to case law,” which it described as AI “hallucinations.”
“As indicated in (the lawyers’) written submissions, AI was used in the preparation of the originally filed Summary of Arguments and List of Authorities (filed on October 17, 2025),” it said.
“To what extent and in what manner it was used remains unclear, regardless of the written statement…
