Canada
National Overview • 2 Cases • 2 Rules • 1 Incidents
I. Jurisprudence
| Date ↓ | Case Title | Summary | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-22 | ABCA (CA) — Personal costs for AI-hallucinated authorities in factum | The Alberta Court of Appeal ordered personal costs against a lawyer after appellate filings included citations to non-existent pre... | Unknown / Not D... |
| 2025-11-19 | FC (CA) — $500 costs after AI misuse allegation and citation errors | The Federal Court addressed an allegation by the respondent that applicant’s counsel had misused AI without declaring it. The cou... | Unknown / Not D... |
II. Regulation
| Date ↓ | Regulation Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-21 | IPC/OHRC joint principles for responsible AI adoption | Requires advisors and legal teams to operationalize combined privacy + human rights governance for AI (impact assessments, oversig... | in force |
| — | LSO white paper: licensee use of generative artificial intelligence (Ontario) | Drives internal governance for Ontario legal practices using GenAI: written policies, tool due diligence, confidentiality controls... |
III. Incidents
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I. Jurisprudence
| 2026-01-22 | ABCA (CA) — Personal costs for AI-hallucinated authorities in factum The Alberta Court of Appeal ordered personal costs against a lawyer after appellate filings included citations to non-existent precedents described as having been generated by an AI tool. The court tr... |
| 2025-11-19 | FC (CA) — $500 costs after AI misuse allegation and citation errors The Federal Court addressed an allegation by the respondent that applicant’s counsel had misused AI without declaring it.
The court highlighted that counsel failed to correct a mis-citation (to a pri... |
II. Regulations
| 2026-01-21 | IPC/OHRC joint principles for responsible AI adoption Requires advisors and legal teams to operationalize combined privacy + human rights governance for AI (impact assessments, oversight roles, transparency artifacts, and monitoring) in Ontario-facing de... |
LSO white paper: licensee use of generative artificial intelligence (Ontario) Drives internal governance for Ontario legal practices using GenAI: written policies, tool due diligence, confidentiality controls, mandatory output verification, and training to maintain technologica... |
III. Incidents
| 2026-01-13 | Ontario tribunal decision spotlights Grok-assisted filings with hallucinated authorities Canadian legal trade press reported on a Law Society Tribunal matter in which a lawyer (with a suspended licence) acknowledged using generative AI, specifically Grok, to research and draft motion mate... |