Jonathan David Sheppard v Jillion LLC
Qatar FC Court · Nov 12, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- international
- Court
- Qatar FC Court
- Record ID
- jonathan-david-sheppard-v-jillion-llc-2025-11-12
- Observed outcome
- Contempt of court finding; no penal sanction imposed; public judgment issued; lawyer's apology accepted.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The QFC Court found a lawyer in contempt for citing fabricated case law. The Court determined the conduct was intentional and reckless rather than inadvertent. The sanction was limited to a formal finding of contempt, a public judgment, and the lawyer's apology, with the Court choosing not to impose a penal sanction or identify the lawyer.
Fabricated: Case Law | Cited as authority for extension of time: court found 'Al Khor International School v. Gulf Contracting Co. (QFC 2022)' was not a decision of this Court; lawyer admitted citation came from Google/secondary sources. || Fabricated: Case Law | Cited for a jurisdictional challenge: court found 'Doha Bank v. KPMG (QFC App 2019)' was not a decision of this Court; lawyer later confirmed the reference was produced by Google screenshots and research error.
Google screenshots are not legal research; require a primary-source check on every citation and log the verification.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fake Citations
- Employment
- Trial
- None Adjudicated
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- Google (search/screenshots)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Judgment of the First Instance Circuit of the Qatar Financial Centre Civil and Commercial Court regarding a finding of contempt of court.
Damien Charlotin case archive
Publisher document archive. The recorded document is hosted in the upstream publisher archive.
Open underlying sourceA recorded source link is not a substitute for checking the underlying order, filing, opinion, or disciplinary record.
What this record does—and does not—establish
The lawyer admitted the citations were sourced from Google screenshots.
Retained unchanged after audit: the existing summary is source-specific, non-placeholder, and supported by the recorded source link. Read the underlying source before relying on it for legal advice or a filing.
Latest evidence review: Primary Document Verified (high confidence).
Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify each cited authority, quotation, and proposition against the underlying source before filing.
- Use only approved research and drafting tools for legal work.
- Retain a matter-level record of source checks and corrections.