Former marine surveyor Munchang Choi had launched various complaints and court actions related to alleged bullying, leading up to termination. He relied, in part, on artificial intelligence for his filings.<\/p>\n
A Federal Court judge made a decision July 10 that highlights how AI can threaten the integrity of the legal system.<\/p>\n
Justice Simon Fothergill sided with Lloyd\u2019s Register Canada Ltd., which sought to have a motion record removed from the court file because it was \u201cscandalous, frivolous, vexatious, and otherwise an abuse of process.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fothergill also considered that former B.C. marine surveyor Munchang Choi used AI when filing the motion and included a reference to a court case that does not exist.<\/p>\n
Fothergill said Choi previously relied on AI in \u201cother proceedings,\u201d and that in those cases misrepresented more than 30 legal authorities and legal principles.<\/p>\n
Choi admitted that he used generative AI tools but said that this use was limited to drafting and preliminary research.<\/p>\n
He denied that one specific citation in question was\u00a0an AI hallucination, or a fabricated case invented by the technology, but instead was a case of him simply making a mistake when writing the citation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe notes that he is a self-represented litigant with mental health issues, and asks the court not to remove the motion record from the court file and refrain from imposing punitive measures,\u201d Fothergill wrote.<\/p>\n
He then added that Choi\u2019s \u201cexplanation for citing a non-existent case that was apparently generated by AI is unsatisfactory and cannot be accepted by the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
He awarded Lloyd\u2019s Register Canada with costs valued at $500.<\/p>\n
Choi\u2019s dispute with Lloyd\u2019s Register Canada goes back to 2023 when he first filed a complaint with the director of employment standards, claiming wage loss, bonus payments, medical and other expenses and compensation for length of service against Lloyd\u2019s, which was his former employer.<\/p>\n
His complaint alleged \u201charassment, bullying, work exclusion, threats, intimidation, defamation, humiliation, and false accusations at his workplace, and retaliatory dismissal,\u201d according to an employment standards tribunal appeal decision last year.<\/p>\n
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