Through a new partnership with the National Self-Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP), its members can use a dedicated access code to upload full-length court documents to CaseCheck for citation verification.

CaseCheck reads a court document, identifies every case citation it contains, and automatically verifies each one against CanLII. We built CaseCheck to address a problem that has become impossible to ignore in Canadian courts and tribunals: generative AI tools regularly invent case citations that look real but do not exist anywhere in Canadian law.

Courtready maintains a public database tracking decisions in which AI-hallucinated citations have been submitted to Canadian courts. The database has recorded more than 147 affected decisions to date, and over 80% of those decisions involve self-represented litigants.

The consequences of submitting fictitious citations have ranged from warnings to costs awards and case dismissal. The risk falls hardest on the people with the fewest resources to absorb it.

NSRLP has been the leading voice for self-represented litigants in Canada for over a decade. We are grateful for the partnership.

Access to justice is not just about access to courts. It is also about access to the same tools.