Sanction teardown · Ontario SCJ (Bankruptcy), Canada · 2026-03-02
Re Gary Man Kin Ng
What happened
In Ontario SCJ (Bankruptcy), Canada, a filing relied on an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool to help draft legal argument. The court identified the following problems with the citations in that filing:
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Fabricated (Case Law)Bankrupt cited 'Galty B.V. (Re), 2021 ONSC 7250'; court found no such decision at that citation in CanLII or Westlaw and paragraph references did not match existing Galty decisions; Bankrupt admitted reliance on AI.
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Fabricated (Case Law)Multiple other unspecified authorities in the Bankrupt's materials appeared to be AI-generated/hallucinatory; opposing counsel alerted the court and the court ordered the Bankrupt to produce every cited case or admit non-existence.
Which AI tool
an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool. Note: Charlotin's public database records tool attribution only where a court order, brief, or reporting on the matter states it explicitly; "unidentified" or "implied" means the record indicates AI use but does not name a specific product — we do not guess.
Outcome
Not specified in source record.
How Citation Safe would have caught this
Citation Safe runs three deterministic layers before a brief is filed: (1) does the citation exist against CourtListener's database of published opinions, (2) if quoted, does that exact language appear in the source, (3) does the cited case actually support the proposition it is cited for. Fabricated case citations fail Layer 1. Fabricated or misattributed quotations fail Layer 2 even when the underlying case is real. Misrepresented holdings — a real case cited for a proposition it does not support — are the target of Layer 3. None of these checks involve asking another language model whether the citation looks right; they are lookups and text-matches against the actual source, which is why a hallucinated citation has to survive a direct lookup against the authoritative source — not another model's opinion — to earn a VERIFIED stamp; our measured false-verify rate is published live at /quality.
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Source: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/documents/1693/Re_Gary_Ng_Canada_2_March_2026.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).