Where is the plain-English note for my court?
Each instrument has its own page, with the effective date and a disclosure checklist. The list below links every Australian court page on this site. The cards under it are the jurisdiction task sets.
Court AI practice notes
AI practice notes by Australian court
Court and tribunal AI practice notes for each Australian forum, with the task versions that change in that forum.
Plain-English notes
- AI practice note: Federal Court of Australia
- FCFCOA AI practice direction
- Fair Work Commission AI guidance note
- Administrative Review Tribunal generative AI practice direction
- SC Gen 23: generative AI in the NSW Supreme Court
- NSW Local Court generative AI practice note
- NSW District Court generative AI note
- NSW Land and Environment Court generative AI note
- NCAT generative AI directions
- Personal Injury Commission generative AI note
- SC Gen 25: Victoria AI practice note
- County Court of Victoria AI guidelines
- VCAT and generative AI
- Queensland courts AI practice direction
- Queensland District Court AI accuracy direction
- QCAT AI accuracy direction
- Queensland Planning and Environment Court and Land Court AI directions
- WA Supreme Court generative AI guidelines
- South Australia courts generative AI guidelines
- SAET generative AI guidelines
- Tasmania court AI practice notes
- ACT court AI practice notes
- Northern Territory court AI practice notes
- High Court of Australia and generative AI
Jurisdiction task sets
- commonwealth
Commonwealth
Federal Court, Federal Circuit and Family Court, Administrative Review Tribunal, and Commonwealth statutes. A state admission does not import that state’s court AI note into a Commonwealth proceeding.
- state
New South Wales
Supreme Court Practice Note SC Gen 23 from 3 February 2025, and separate notes for the District Court, Local Court, Land and Environment Court, NCAT and the Personal Injury Commission.
- state
Victoria
Supreme Court of Victoria Practice Note SC Gen 25, commencing 14 May 2026, for every court user in that Court. Recorded 10 Oct 2026: Practice Note for Court users and Guidelines for judicial officers on the use of AI; Practice Note PNVCAT11 – Use of generative artificial intelligence.
- state
Queensland
Queensland Courts guidance on generative AI, Supreme Court Practice Direction 5 of 2025 on accuracy of references, and Queensland Law Society Guidance Statement No. 37. Recorded 10 Oct 2026: The use of generative AI: guidelines for judicial officers.
- state
Western Australia
Supreme Court of Western Australia guidelines for the use of generative AI in that Court’s proceedings. Recorded 10 Oct 2026: Artificial Intelligence practice direction: Consultation note.
- state
South Australia
Guidelines for generative AI in South Australian courts, applying from 1 January 2026 across the courts named by the Courts Administration Authority. Recorded 10 Oct 2026: Artificial Intelligence Hub.
- state
Tasmania
Supreme Court of Tasmania and the Tasmanian legislation site. No dedicated court AI protocol was listed for Tasmania on the Law Society of New South Wales index as at 14 May 2026. No AI direction found as of 10 Oct 2026. No Tasmanian court AI direction found; Law Society of Tasmania article (https://lst.org.au/the-question-isnt-whether-you-used-ai-its-how-you-used-it/) discusses federal/NSW/Vic notes only.
- territory
Australian Capital Territory
ACT Courts and the ACT legislation register. No dedicated court AI protocol for the Territory was listed on the Law Society of New South Wales index as at 14 May 2026. No AI direction found as of 10 Oct 2026. Law Society of the ACT guidance on generative AI in legal practice is known from secondary sources but unverified: the primary page was not retrieved on 10 Oct 2026.
- territory
Northern Territory
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and the Northern Territory legislation site. No dedicated court AI protocol for the Territory was listed on the Law Society of New South Wales index as at 14 May 2026. No AI direction found as of 10 Oct 2026. Supreme Court NT current practice directions page (https://supremecourt.nt.gov.au/lawyers/practice-directions) scraped 2026-10-10: no AI direction found.
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Questions
Does one practice note cover Australia?
No. The Federal Court, the Federal Circuit and Family Court, the Fair Work Commission and each state court publish their own instrument. Open the one named on the file.