Pasuengos v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
Federal Circuit and Family Court · Dec 22, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- international
- Court
- Federal Circuit and Family Court
- Record ID
- pasuengos-v-minister-for-immigration-and-citizenship-2025-12-22
- Observed outcome
- The Court ordered the applicant's legal representative to file an affidavit explaining the AI-generated submissions and to show cause regarding a potential referral to the Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner (SA).
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The Court issued an order requiring the applicant's legal representative to explain the use of AI in generating fabricated case law and to show cause why they should not be referred to the Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner (SA) for professional misconduct.
Fabricated: Case Law | Applicant's written submissions cited multiple authorities that, on request, could not be produced because they do not exist; Minister alerted the Court to the non-existence.
Opposing counsel will check your authorities; a show-cause order is the inevitable next step when citations do not exist.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fake Citations
- Administrative
- Appellate
- Ordered To Show Cause
- AI attribution
- Admitted
- Recorded tool
- Unidentified
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- The Court issued an interlocutory order to show cause regarding professional conduct following the submission of AI-generated, non-existent case law, while the substantive judicial review application proceeded to dismissal.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The judgment states an unidentified artificial intelligence program was used.
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.
- Assign a responsible reviewer for AI-assisted research and drafting.