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The Supreme Court dismissed a self-represented applicant’s leave applications, which relied on authorities it identified as hallucinations of a generative AI application, and ordered costs against her.

The Employment Relations Authority awarded increased costs against a self-represented party, partly because they relied on cases that did not exist and kept doing so after being pointed to the…

Declining leave to appeal in Jones v Family Court at Whangārei, the Supreme Court noted that the applicant had cited a number of authorities that appeared to have been hallucinated…

Declining a self-represented borrower’s bid to stop ASB Bank selling a property, the High Court noted the submissions suggested significant use of AI and misquoted the law.

The Employment Relations Authority found a self-represented applicant had used ChatGPT to write submissions citing cases that did not exist, and had uploaded the respondent’s confidential information into the tool.…

In Cunningham v healthAlliance NZ Ltd, the Employment Court found that a self-represented litigant’s filings relied on cases that did not exist, which the Court said may have come from…

In LMN v STC (No 2), a self-represented employee cited a supposed precedent to argue for procedural leniency on grounds of financial hardship. The Court could not locate the decision…

In Wikeley v Kea Investments Ltd, the Court of Appeal noted that parts of the appellant’s original memorandum referred to authorities that do not exist, evidently produced by generative AI.…