Supreme Court criticises citation of AI hallucinated authorities

More AI hallucinations in the NZ Supreme Court. An appellant cited two authorities that do not exist, and a further authority that did exist but had nothing to do with the proposition it was cited for.

The Court criticised the appellant and said that in some cases costs sanctions may be called for. But it did not make any costs sanction. It is unclear why not -- it may be because the appellant was self-represented.

In any event, it is only a matter of time before the Court finds that citing fake cases is an obstruction of justice or a contempt of court, and makes a costs sanction -- especially if the submissions are filed by a lawyer, but potentially for self-represented litigants too.