Malik v Insurance Australia Limited
D. New South Wales · Mar 6, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- international
- Court
- D. New South Wales
- Record ID
- malik-v-insurance-australia-limited-2026-03-06
- Observed outcome
- The court set aside the plaintiff's Notice to Produce, ordered the plaintiff to disclose and verify any future use of Generative AI in accordance with Practice Note 2, and ordered the plaintiff to pay the defendant's costs of the motion.
- Known monetary consequence
- A$0
Why this matter warrants attention
The court did not adjudicate whether the plaintiff used AI, but it ordered the plaintiff to disclose and verify any future use of Generative AI in accordance with local practice notes, citing the defendant's allegations of hallucinated cases and misquoted documents as the basis for the order.
Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant alleged the plaintiff's filings contained hallucinated/cited cases that do not exist; court noted instances of fabricated case law though specific fabricated citations were not identified in reasons. || False Quotes: Exhibits & Submissions | Defendant alleged the plaintiff misquoted public documents and misapplied legal principle in submissions.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in D. New South Wales, with the listed outcome: Adverse Costs Order.
Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Fabricated Quotes
- Contract
- Trial
- Monetary
- AI attribution
- Alleged
- Recorded tool
- Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
- Known monetary consequence
- A$0
- Procedural posture
- Ex parte hearing on defendant's notice of motion to set aside a Notice to Produce and to compel disclosure of Generative AI usage.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court refers to Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) in the context of Practice Note 2.
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Latest evidence review: Primary Document Verified (high confidence).
Allegation status: no adjudicated finding is represented by this brief.
Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify each cited authority, quotation, and proposition against the underlying source before filing.
- Confirm that every authority actually supports the proposition for which it is offered.