CBA National Magazine has published The Missing Defendant in Canada’s Fictitious Case Law Crisis, an opinion piece by Courtready’s co-founder Tom Macintosh Zheng.

The article draws on Courtready’s AI Hallucinated Cases database, which has now identified at least 250 AI-hallucinated case citations across 139 Canadian decisions spanning 46 courts and tribunals. The trajectory continues to accelerate: 7 decisions in 2024, 80 in 2025, and 52 so far in 2026.

The piece makes one central argument: every institutional response to date has targeted the humans in the system. Courts have sanctioned lawyers. Tribunals have penalized self-represented litigants. Judges are catching, for the most part, what the parties have missed. But no one has asked anything of the AI companies whose products fabricate law and ship it to millions of users without meaningful safeguards.

Read the full article at nationalmagazine.ca.

CBA National Magazine is the official publication of the Canadian Bar Association and covers trends and developments affecting the legal profession across Canada.