Adverse Costs and a Bar Council Warning: When a Self-Represented Party Cited an AI-Fabricated Case — Deepak Bahry v. Heart & Soul Entertainment
The Bombay High Court awarded adverse costs against a litigant after counsel submitted a legal brief containing multiple AI-hallucinated citations — cases that simply did not exist. The court held that relying on fabricated precedent without verification constituted a breach of professional duty, and that judges’ time is too valuable to be wasted correcting lawyers’ AI-generated errors.
