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Update: 2025-01-09
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John Maytham is joined by Attorney Lucien Pierce to highlight a recent South African High Court case that underscored the dangers of unverified reliance on AI in legal research. Pierce explains how counsel relied on authorities provided by AI without verifying their validity, only for the court to discover that some of the cited cases did not exist.

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