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Victoria Place Flats RTM Company Ltd & ors v Assethold Limited
First-tier Tribunal · Oct 23, 2025
GBEditorial impact: lowfake citationsmisrepresented authoritycontracttrial
Direct answer
What happened in this matter?
Fabricated: Case Law | M365 Copilot returned fabricated Court of Appeal citations for Qdime (non-existent EWCA citations) which Mr Gurvits' submissions echoed; tribunal could not locate those citations on bailii and found them to be AI hallucinations. The judge tested Microsoft M365 Copilot and found it produced fabricated Court of Appeal citations for Qdime and an incorrect citation for Gala Unity. The Tribunal concluded Mr Gurvits used AI-generated research without adequate verification; the AI outputs were rejected as unreliable. The Tribunal criticised the conduct but did not impose professional disciplinary sanctions;…
- Why the court cared
- The record concerns whether authorities presented to the decision-maker existed and could be verified. The tracked outcome is the response recorded in the linked source; the linked source controls the precise reasoning.
- Why it matters now
- Microsoft Copilot hallucinates EWCA citations — enterprise AI is not a verification substitute.
Why this matter is tracked
Fabricated: Case Law | M365 Copilot returned fabricated Court of Appeal citations for Qdime (non-existent EWCA citations) which Mr Gurvits' submissions echoed; tribunal could not locate those citations on bailii and found them to be AI hallucinations. The judge tested Microsoft M365 Copilot and found it produced fabricated Court of Appeal citations for Qdime and an incorrect citation for Gala Unity. The Tribunal concluded Mr Gurvits used AI-generated research without adequate verification; the AI outputs were rejected as unreliable. The Tribunal criticised the conduct but did not impose professional disciplinary sanctions; remedial orders in the case related to service charge and fee reimbursement.
Operational lesson
Microsoft Copilot hallucinates EWCA citations — enterprise AI is not a verification substitute.
Record details
CourtFirst-tier Tribunal
Jurisdictioninternational
CircuitNot recorded
DateOct 23, 2025
AI
AI toolAI (implied, unspecified)
Party typeLawyer
OutcomeSee source
Known amountNot recorded
Professional sanctionNo
Attribution boundary
What the record establishes about AI use
reported
AI (implied, unspecified) is recorded in the source dataset; confirm the basis in the linked document.
Procedural posture
Procedural posture is not separately recorded in the current dataset.
Correction behavior
Correction behavior is not separately verified in the current record.
Tracked discrepancy record
2 citation, quotation, or authority issues are recorded in the source dataset.
- Fabricated: Case Law | M365 Copilot returned fabricated Court of Appeal citations for Qdime (non-existent EWCA citations) which Mr Gurvits' submissions echoed; tribunal could not locate those citations on bailii and found them to be AI hallucinations.
- Misrepresented: Case Law | Respondent provided an incorrect citation for Gala Unity; tribunal identified the citation as invalid and treated it as an AI-originated error.
Questions this record answers
- What happened in Victoria Place Flats RTM Company Ltd & ors v Assethold Limited?
- Fabricated: Case Law | M365 Copilot returned fabricated Court of Appeal citations for Qdime (non-existent EWCA citations) which Mr Gurvits' submissions echoed; tribunal could not locate those citations on bailii and found them to be AI hallucinations. The judge tested Microsoft M365 Copilot and found it produced fabricated Court of Appeal citations for Qdime and an incorrect citation for Gala Unity. The Tribunal concluded Mr Gurvits used AI-generated research without adequate verification; the AI outputs were rejected as unreliable. The Tribunal criticised the conduct but did not impose professional disciplinary sanctions;…
- Why does Victoria Place Flats RTM Company Ltd & ors v Assethold Limited matter for legal AI risk?
- Microsoft Copilot hallucinates EWCA citations — enterprise AI is not a verification substitute.
- What does the public record establish about Victoria Place Flats RTM Company Ltd & ors v Assethold Limited?
- 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.
- Which source supports this Victoria Place Flats RTM Company Ltd & ors v Assethold Limited summary?
- The recorded source is Damien Charlotin case archive. It is classified as publisher document archive; review the linked material and subsequent docket history before relying on this summary.
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