A local judge has ordered an investigation into the conduct of lawyers who used generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to present non-existent citations in court.

This, after in a Johannesburg High Court case, Northbound Processing brou…

Faced with non-existent legal citations in a matter before the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, an acting judge asked counsel responsible for it whether the citations constituted artificial intelligence (AI) "hallucinations," to which the …

At a glance

• South African courts have delivered another unequivocal warning to legal professionals: presenting AI-generated fictitious citations will result in mandatory referral to the Legal Practice Council, regardless of good intentions…

A South African junior advocate who relied on an artificial intelligence tool to draft court submissions has been referred to the Legal Practice Council for investigation after including fictitious case law in written arguments. The case, i…