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Crown Prosecution Service Reportedly Filed Purportedly AI-Generated False Citations in Two Extradition Appeals
- Occurred
- Jun 3, 2025
- Published
- Jul 14, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In joined appeals involving Andreea-Maria Tobosaru and Marian Tofan, the Crown Prosecution Service reportedly filed grounds of opposition containing two nonexistent authorities that likely originated from purported generative AI. The citations also appeared in a later document. The High Court said they did not affect the appeals, and the CPS apologized, citing inadequate verification by a reviewing lawyer.
Developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- Crown Prosecution Service
- Lawyers
Harmed parties
- Epistemic integrity
- Judicial integrity
- Andreea-Maria Tobosaru
- Marian Tofan
- Extradition appellants
- High Court of Justice (England and Wales)
- Courts
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI-generated hallucinations led to false legal citations in court filings, causing procedural issues but no major harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8