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Lawyer Duty Of Candour

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 28 May 2026

Auckland University law expert Joshua Yuvaraj discusses growing global concerns about AI-generated hallucinations in court filings, highlighting risks to legal accuracy, judicial trust, and the integrity of justice systems, with implications for both self-represented litigantsand

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  • Well, uh yes, yes and no. Uh for for lawyers, we have a duty to uh be completely candid with uh with the court. And so uh the the whole system is built on judges being able to trust what uh what lawyers say. Uh that there's a reason you are able to go to a lawyer to sign an affidavit or take a statutory declaration, because there's a position of trust in society. Uh but um but if you can't do that, then again, the the whole sort of system, you know, threatens to break down a little bit. Uh and and I guess with litigants as well, the whole scheme of litigation depends on the judge being able to trust that people who are in litigation are telling the truth or are presenting things accurately.
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