When did the South Australian court guidelines start?
The Courts Administration Authority says they apply from 1 January 2026 in the six courts named on its page.
Courts named by the Courts Administration Authority
South Australia courts generative AI guidelines
The 1 January 2026 date covers more than the Supreme Court. Check that your court is in the list, then read the guideline rather than a news summary.
The public page is an announcement and a download. The obligations are in the guideline. A self-represented information sheet on the same page is written for a different reader.
SACAT is not in the six-court list. The South Australian Employment Tribunal has published its own note that it adopts the Supreme Court guidelines. Open that page if the file is in SAET.
1 January 2026
The Courts Administration Authority says the guidelines apply from 1 January 2026 to proceedings in the Supreme Court, District Court, Magistrates Court, Youth Court, Environment, Resources and Development Court and Court of Disputed Returns. The operative text is the PDF on that page.
Guidelines concerning the use of generative artificial intelligence in litigation in South Australian courts
Disclosure checklist
Work through this against the instrument, not instead of it. The checks do not record that the filing is done.
- Confirm the proceeding is in one of the six courts named in the 1 January 2026 announcement.
- Download the current guideline and read it against the document you are preparing.
- Verify citations in a trusted source. Do not treat a New South Wales or Victorian note as the South Australian rule.
- Keep confidential and suppressed material out of public tools unless the guideline you have read allows that environment.
- Keep witness evidence in the witness’s own words while you confirm what the guideline says about affidavits and experts.
- If the matter is in SACAT or SAET, open that body’s own page rather than assuming the six-court list covers it.
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
Which courts are covered?
Supreme Court, District Court, Magistrates Court, Youth Court, Environment, Resources and Development Court, and Court of Disputed Returns. SACAT is not on that list. SAET has a separate adoption page.
Is the announcement the rule?
No. Download the guideline PDF. The announcement points to it.