Check authorities and evidence before filing submissions
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Extract citations, quotations and evidence references from a draft into a verification table.
- What the lawyer must review
- Verify each reference directly in reliable sources
- Record the required statement in the submissions where the court requires one
- Written for / version
- Written for New South WalesUS
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Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Potential support includes extracting and organising information and preparing preliminary structure or wording. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Open each relied-on authority independently. Confirm its existence, current status, proposition and any quotation or pinpoint reference.
- Check the current court or regulator requirements, prescribed form and attachments for the intended document and filing.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.