{"id":384652,"date":"2026-04-06T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384652\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:42:12","slug":"judge-issues-warning-over-use-of-ai-in-cases-to-avoid-courts-being-presented-with-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384652\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge issues warning over use of AI in cases to avoid courts being presented with \u2018rubbish\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Papers filed in recent legal submission contained several apparent \u2018hallucinations\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mr Justice Senan Allen. Photo: Maxwells\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GE.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mr Justice Senan Allen. Photo: Maxwells<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Litigants who use artificial intelligence tools in the preparation of court filings have a responsibility to check the accuracy of what these throw up so that opponents are not sent \u201con a wild goose chase\u201d and courts are \u201cnot presented with rubbish\u201d, a senior judge has warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The comments were made by Mr Justice Senan Allen of the Court of Appeal following a case where papers filed by an appellant contained several \u00adapparent \u201challucinations\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Papers filed in recent legal submission contained several apparent \u2018hallucinations\u2019 Mr Justice Senan Allen. Photo: Maxwells Litigants who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,9657],"class_list":{"0":"post-384652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-shane-phelan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}