The record of how evidence was made
When the evidence itself is made by AI
Every other page on this site is about lawyers citing cases that do not exist. This section is about the other half of the problem: material offered as evidence that a machine produced, by anyone at all.
A fabricated citation wastes a court's time. Fabricated evidence decides who goes to prison. The same tools now sit on both sides of that line, and in 2026 the question stopped being theoretical in England.
Why this section exists
The sanctions record answers one question: what happens to an attorney who files an authority that a machine invented. It is a real question and courts are answering it in public.
It is not the harder question. The harder question is what happens when the machine writes the witness statement, the intelligence dossier, or the exhibit, and nobody kept a record of which parts a person actually observed. At that point the problem is not a wasted afternoon. It is a conviction.
That distinction is why this site exists at all. A record made at the moment of creation, saying which tool was involved and what a named person personally checked, is the only artefact that answers the question later. Nothing detects it after the fact. This section documents what happens when that record does not exist.
The record so far
England · June 2026 · investigation open
Derbyshire: an officer investigated over AI-created evidential material
A criminal investigation into an allegation of perverting the course of justice, over the alleged use of AI to create evidential material in a number of cases. Reported as the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. No charge, no finding, no name.
Read the pageEngland and Wales · June 2026 · guidance
PoliceAI asks forces to pause generative AI in court statements
Days after the national centre launched, its head asked forces to stop using generative AI to prepare court documents while safeguards are built, and set the accuracy standard at “beyond reasonable doubt”. Includes the West Midlands dossier that invented a football match.
Read the pageWhat we will add here
This section grows the same way the sanctions record did, one verified entry at a time. The categories we are tracking, in every jurisdiction and not only this one:
- Evidential material alleged to have been produced or altered by AI, by police, prosecutors or investigators.
- Expert reports and witness statements prepared with generative tools without disclosure.
- Intelligence and disclosure documents built on AI output that turned out to be invented.
- Deepfaked exhibits offered in civil and criminal proceedings, and how courts tested them.
- Guidance from policing bodies, prosecutors and courts on all of the above.