Law Institute of Victoria AI Hub
The hub is a reading list. Victorian solicitors are bound by the Uniform Law and the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules, not by the hub.
The Institute’s AI Hub collects resources for Victorian lawyers. It is not a conduct rule. Victorian solicitors are bound by the Uniform Law rules.
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Key facts
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- Law Institute of Victoria
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This is a reading aid for an Australian law firm. It is not legal advice, not a certification, and not a finding that a tool or a firm complies. The sentences paraphrase the sources listed, checked on the date shown. Where a standard is sold by ISO or the AICPA, the page uses the publisher’s public description and does not reproduce the standard.
What it is
The Law Institute of Victoria publishes an Artificial Intelligence Hub. The page checked on 10 October 2026 is a collection: an ethics-guidelines link titled Ethical and Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence, articles, a joint AI selection and use checklist issued with the Queensland Law Society and other societies, court guidelines, and material from the Legal Practitioners’ Liability Committee on the limits of AI in practice.
The hub does not, on that page, state a new conduct rule. The binding instruments for Victorian solicitors are the Legal Profession Uniform Law and the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules 2015. The December 2024 statement on AI was issued by the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner, which regulates the profession, together with the Law Society of New South Wales and the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia. That statement is not an LIV conduct rule. Its confidentiality and verification points are set out on the New South Wales page, because the text is the same statement.
Who it applies to
The hub is for Victorian legal practitioners and anyone the Institute is trying to help. A solicitor who practises in Victoria follows the Uniform Law rules whether or not they open the hub. A solicitor outside Victoria can read the hub. It does not bind them.
What it asks of a law firm using AI
- Use the hub as a reading list. Open the ethics guidelines, the joint selection checklist, and the Supreme Court of Victoria’s Practice Note SC Gen 25 (14 May 2026) before treating a headline on the hub as the obligation.
- Rule 9 of the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules, set out on the confidentiality page, is the confidentiality rule for Victorian solicitors. The LIV hub does not relax it.
- The December 2024 regulators’ statement, which applies to Victorian lawyers because the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner issued it, says public AI tools are not a safe place for confidential, sensitive or privileged client information, and that a commercial tool used with client information needs a contractual review.
- The hub’s link to the LPLC material is a risk note from the liability insurer’s committee. It is not a ruling that AI use is prohibited.
How it maps to this framework
The rows are this site’s questions. Where the cell says “Not set here”, the instrument does not set that requirement. The gap is still recorded, so it is not treated as answered.
| This site’s question | What the instrument says that bears on it |
|---|---|
| Efficiency Whether the tool saves total human work at the quality the task needs. | Not set here. |
| Effectiveness Whether the output is good enough for the task. The catalogue does not score this. | The regulators’ statement, which covers Victoria, requires the lawyer to verify AI-assisted documents personally. The hub’s court and LPLC links are there because unverified output is the practical failure. This framework scores that risk as effectiveness, for the task. |
| Due diligence What the firm has actually read about hosting, training and assurance before it relies on the tool. | The joint AI selection checklist linked from the hub is a buying checklist. Use it as a list of questions. The answers still have to come from the product’s terms and from a test on the firm’s work. |
| Confidentiality Whether client and other confidential information can go into the tool. | Victorian solicitors are under rule 9. The hub does not add a second confidentiality code on the page that was read. The regulators’ statement is the AI-specific warning. |
| Disclosure When the firm tells the client, and where required the court or another party, that AI was used. | Disclosure to clients and, where necessary or appropriate, to the court is in the December 2024 statement. The Supreme Court of Victoria’s Practice Note SC Gen 25 (14 May 2026) is the court’s document; check that the hub links to it and not to the court’s earlier guidelines. Read it on the court page. This page does not restate them. |
| Certifications ISO, SOC 2 and IRAP names recorded against the tool. A listed name is not a finding that the certificate covers the firm’s plan. | Not set here. |
| Data residency Where the tool holds data, including whether that place is recorded as Australia. | Not set here. |
Sources
- Law Institute of Victoria, Artificial Intelligence Hub
- Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner, statement on the use of AI
Checked 2026-10-10. Issued by Law Institute of Victoria.