Draft default or summary-judgment papers from the liquidated file

Key facts

Human involvement: YellowClose supervision
How AI is used: Under the lawyer's direction, work up the request for default judgment or the notice of motion for summary judgment, the interest-to-judgment and scale-costs calculation and the minute of judgment sought, from the contract, the ledger, the demand and the court form the lawyer has named. The tool writes no part of any affidavit in the pack — not the affidavit of debt, not the affidavit of service, and not the affidavit verifying the facts and the belief that the defendant has no defence — no draft, no scaffold, no suggested paragraphs; on those it only indexes the exhibits, lists ledger entries with no source document, and checks the lawyer's sworn draft against the ledger and the court's form.
What the lawyer must review: Check the judgment sum, the interest period and rate and the costs claimed against the ledger, the contract and the current scale, and confirm the default or summary-judgment ground is made out under the rules of the court the claim is in. The affidavit of debt and the affidavit of service are the lawyer's own drafting: check every figure, date and exhibit reference against the source documents, and satisfy yourself the deponent has the knowledge deposed to, before it is sworn and filed.
Written for / version: US

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Who does what

Who does what
Role	What they do
Assistance	Under the lawyer’s direction, work up the request for default judgment or the notice of motion, the interest-to-judgment and scale-costs calculation and the minute of judgment sought. The tool writes no part of any affidavit in the pack.
Lawyer	Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output.

Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
Verify every relied-on citation, figure and name against the source document.
The responsible lawyer approves the exact version before use.

Forms and precedents for this task
Form or precedent	Kind	AI use	Summary
Claim (Form 2), statement of claim (Form 16) and default judgment (Queensland courts): debt recovery guide	Form	AI use Yellow	Link to Queensland Courts' guide to recovering money owed, with the court for each claim value, Forms 2 and 16, filing copies, service within one year, the Form 46 affidavit of service, the 28-day response time and default judgment.
Application for order in default of defence (Magistrates' Court Form 21A)	Form	AI use Yellow	Link to Magistrates' Court Form 21A, the application for an order in default of defence when a served complaint has no defence.
Complaint (Magistrates' Court of Victoria Form 5A): starting a debt claim and the 21-day notice of defence	Form	AI use Yellow	Link to the Magistrates' Court of Victoria Form 5A complaint, with a guide to the plaintiff's address for service, the notice to the defendant, the 21-day time to give notice of defence (Form 8A) or pay, and the default order that may follow.
Default judgment for a liquidated demand (Supreme Court of Western Australia Form 32): completion guide	Form	AI use Yellow	Link to Supreme Court of Western Australia Form 32, default judgment in an action for a liquidated demand.

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.

Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts. The checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.