Malone & Anor v Laois County Council & Ors
High Court · Jun 23, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- international
- Court
- High Court
- Record ID
- malone-anor-v-laois-county-council-ors-2025-06-23
- Observed outcome
- Warning
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
False Quotes: Case Law | Mr Malone’s submissions presented a passage as a verbatim quote about national courts being 'decentralised courts' from §68 of Case C-416/10; the Court could find no such text and Malone later replaced it with a different quote from C-234/17 (Celmer). Outcome: Warning. Referring to Ayinde, the judge held that "The principle is essentially the same - though I hasten to say that I would not push the analogy too far as to a factual comparison of the present case with that case and the error in the present case is not of the order of the misconduct in that case.…
The record concerns whether authorities presented to the decision-maker existed and could be verified. The tracked outcome is Warning; the linked source controls the precise reasoning.
Pro-se fake-quote cases still burn judicial time — opposing counsel should demand verbatim source production early.
Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Fabricated Quotes
- Misrepresented Authority
- Administrative
- Trial
- AI attribution
- Reported
- Recorded tool
- AI (implied, unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Warning
Damien Charlotin case archive
Publisher document archive. The recorded document is hosted in the upstream publisher archive.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
AI (implied, unspecified) is recorded in the source dataset; confirm the basis in the linked document.
The record summarizes the outcome described in the linked public source. The recorded document is hosted in the upstream publisher archive. This page is not a substitute for the complete docket, subsequent history, or jurisdiction-specific advice.
Latest evidence review: Primary Document Limited (medium confidence).
Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify the existence, citation, court, and precedential status of every authority before filing.
- Compare every quoted passage and pincite directly with the underlying opinion or filing.
- Confirm that each authority supports the stated proposition and has not been mischaracterized.
- Apply the same source-checking controls to AI (implied, unspecified) output as to any other research input.