Senat für Familiensachen, 17 WF 144/25
KG Berlin · Nov 20, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- international
- Court
- KG Berlin
- Record ID
- senat-fur-familiensachen-17-wf-144-25-2025-11-20
- Observed outcome
- The immediate complaint was rejected as unfounded, and counsel was formally admonished for submitting unverified AI-generated citations.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The KG Berlin court identified that counsel used AI to draft legal submissions containing fabricated case law citations. The court admonished the attorney for failing to verify these citations, noting that such oversight violates the professional duties of a lawyer as an organ of the administration of justice under § 43 BRAO.
Fabricated: Case Law | Counsel cited "BGH, Beschl. v. 14.11.2007 – XII ZB 183/07, FamRZ 2008, 137"; the senate's search found no such decision and that FamRZ 2008, 137 contains unrelated BGH decisions (e.g., 31.10.2017 XII ZR 112/05). || Fabricated: Case Law | Counsel cited "OLG Brandenburg, Beschl. v. 28.07.2016 – 13 UF 103/16" which the senate could not find in legal databases or on the internet and appears non-existent.
This record documents a Lawyer filing issue in KG Berlin, with the listed outcome: no adjudicated outcome recorded.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fake Citations
- Family
- Trial
- None Adjudicated
- AI attribution
- Explicitly Recorded
- Recorded tool
- AI (unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Appellate review of a lower court's denial of legal aid in a family law matter.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court identified the use of AI in drafting.
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.