Does SC Gen 23 apply in the District Court?
General Practice Note 2 adopts it in its current form and as amended. Open the District Court PDF. It does not add a separate formula.
District Court of New South Wales
NSW District Court generative AI note
Paragraph 1 adopts Supreme Court Practice Note SC Gen 23 in its current form and as it may be amended. The District Court note does not add a separate disclosure formula. The Court’s PDF then sets out SC Gen 23.
Open General Practice Note 2 for a District Court file. The adopted paragraphs on affidavits, submissions, expert reports and confidentiality are the paragraphs to read.
3 February 2025
Issued by Chief Judge Huggett on 18 December 2024. Paragraph 2 says the note commences on 3 February 2025.
District Court General Practice Note 2, Generative AI Practice Note
Disclosure checklist
Work through this against the instrument, not instead of it. The checks do not record that the filing is done.
- Open District Court General Practice Note 2 and confirm it still adopts SC Gen 23.
- On an affidavit, witness statement or character reference, include the disclosure that generative AI was not used to generate the content, unless leave covers an annexure.
- If submissions used generative AI, verify citations in the body of the document, and not only with a generative tool.
- Do not draft an expert report with generative AI without the leave the adopted note requires, and tell the expert about the note.
- Keep suppressed and subpoenaed material out of a generative tool unless the controls in the adopted paragraph 9A are met.
Sources
Every Australian court page
Each court has its own note. Open the one named on the file.
- 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
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Questions
What is the effective date?
Paragraph 2 says the note commences on 3 February 2025. The face of the note is dated 18 December 2024.
What should the disclosure say?
Follow the adopted SC Gen 23 paragraph for the document you are filing. Paragraph 13 is the affidavit disclosure. Paragraphs 16 and 17 apply to written submissions only where generative AI was used.