A judge at the Pietermaritzburg High Court says a case cited by lawyers representing a local politician did not exist in the country’s legal records The sharp eye of a judge landed a law firm in a difficult situation when it was discovered that of the nine cases cited in their application as case law, only two could be found, leaving the strong suspicion that they had used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to source their citations. Judge Elsje-Marie Bezuidenhout, sitting in the Pietermaritzburg