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AI & agents · A few weeksNewfoundland and Labrador· Source · Oct 2026

People filing in NL courts can't quickly check that every case they cite actually exists.

Lawyers, self-represented people and court staff who must check case citations in filings

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How this problem came to be

  1. Found2 sourcescourt.nl.ca, damiencharlotin.com
  2. Quoted3 claimseach checked against its page
  3. BriefWrittenand what solved looks like
  4. MarketNot sizedon the next engine run
  5. Kit5 steps22 tools · 6 routes
  6. People0 want0 live it · 0 would test

The problem, broken down

Who it hurts
Lawyers and self-represented people who use AI tools to help draft court filings, and the court staff who read them.
The moment
Just before a filing goes in, when someone has to confirm each cited case and statute by hand.
What people do today
The NL Supreme Court asks people to verify citations against reliable legal databases such as CanLII. That is done one citation at a time.
Why it's unsolved
Canadian citations come in several formats (neutral citations, report series), and the duty to check sits with the person filing, who may have no legal research tools.
What solved looks like
A free web tool where someone pastes a draft and gets back every case and statute citation in it, each marked as found on CanLII (with a link), not found, or found with a different name or year. Tested on 20 real Canadian decisions with planted fake citations, it catches every planted fake and wrongly flags fewer than 1 in 10 real citations.

Evidence

Every claim is tied to the source it comes from
Supreme Court of NL, notice on court submissions and large language models (October 2023) ↗
  1. 1On 12 October 2023 the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador told lawyers and the public to rely only on authoritative sources, such as official court websites, commercial publishers or CanLII, for case law and statutes.
  2. 2The same notice says AI-generated submissions must be verified with ‘meaningful human control’, for example by cross-referencing reliable legal databases.
AI Hallucination Cases database ↗
  1. 3On 2026-10-09 a public database of court decisions dealing with AI-hallucinated content listed 2,180 cases, and says it does not track every fake citation.

Written from the cited sources. Anything they don't say is left as a question, not a guess.

Sources

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  1. [1]AI Hallucination Cases database
  2. [2]Supreme Court of NL, notice on court submissions and large language models (October 2023)
What the source says, in short

On 12 October 2023 the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador told lawyers and the public to rely only on authoritative sources, such as official court websites, commercial publishers or CanLII, for case law and statutes. The same notice says AI-generated submissions must be verified with ‘meaningful human control’, for example by cross-referencing reliable legal databases. On 2026-10-09 a public database of court decisions dealing with AI-hallucinated content listed 2,180 cases, and says it does not track every fake citation.

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