Hallucinated citations strike again

Daily wrap  

• Chinese national to fight reckless foreign interference charge after pleading not guilty - ABC News
   

  • Chinese embassy officials observe Canberra spy case in court [The Australian paywall]

    The woman has pleaded not guilty, invoking Bruce Lehrmann’s aborted criminal trial to keep her identity a secret as embassy officials attend her court hearing.
     

• Federal Court has had enough of this Instagram-famous cavoodle [SMH paywall]
  But the long-running legal battle between a Sydney barrister and high-profile defamation solicitor Rebekah Giles remains afoot.

   

  • Edwards v Nine Network Australia Pty Limited (No 9) [2025] FCA 1042

   

• Cook Shire Council ordered to pay $2.35m in damages over fabricated racist email - ABC News
   

  • Habermann v Cook Shire Council [2025] QSC 214 (29 August 2025)
     

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• Gribble v ESSENTIAL ENERGY trading as Essential Energy - NSW Caselaw

  [36] it is not clear how much of the plaintiff’s pleadings and submissions have been prepared using Gen AI. The most telling example is the reference to a wholly imaginary judgment for which the plaintiff claims that I am the author. Not only does the plaintiff provide a completely false case name, but he claims it reflects a principle of law which is equally imaginary. He cites a similarly false case name for a judgment in another court which he claims reflects the same imaginary principle of law.

   

• Ethical and Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence - Law Institute Victoria
   

• New Civil Procedure Rules 2025 | The Supreme Court of Victoria
   

• The cost of whistleblower victimisation: TerraCom's $7.5 million penalty | Clayton Utz
   

  • Australian Securities and Investments Commission v TerraCom Ltd (No 3) [2025] FCA 1017 (26 August 2025)
     

• PNG Chief Justice celebrates golden jubilee and judicial partnership - Law Society Journal

  In a special address at the Federal Court of Australia, Chief Justice Sir Gibuma Gibbs Salika of Papua New Guinea (PNG) commemorated the nation's upcoming 50th Anniversary of Independence and highlighted the critical role of legal pluralism in its judicial system.
   

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