Prepare a guardianship or administration pack for NCAT, QCAT, VCAT, SACAT, WASAT…
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the medical reports and facts brief, draft the application and a chronology, noting the tribunal and Act still to confirm. The tool writes no part of the applicant’s, a family member’s or a carer’s evidence in the pack, however the tribunal titles it — affidavit, statutory declaration or written statement: no draft, no scaffold, no suggested paragraphs; it indexes the annexed medical and financial documents and lists the facts still needing a source.
- What the lawyer must review
- Verify every citation and tribunal decision on AustLII; do not use AI to verify AI citations (VCAT PNVCAT11)
- Follow NCAT PD7 (from 7 April 2025): authenticate AI-assisted submissions
- Get NCAT leave for AI-assisted expert reports; follow Federal Court GPN-AI (16 April 2026) on disclosure
- Confirm the right tribunal and Act; errors are fatal to urgent interim orders
- Check medical evidence meets the tribunal's threshold; Tas: check reforms from 1 September 2024
- WA: apply the Guardianship and Administration Act 1990; no replacement Act yet
- Note the LRCWA Final Report (tabled 26 February 2026); confirm the deponent can verify each paragraph
- Written for / version
- Australia versionAU
Rules that apply
The document starts from the task name. Change it if this piece of work is different.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Potential support includes organising research leads and extracting and organising information. 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.
- Confirm each factual assertion with the witness and original record. Preserve the witness’s own knowledge and words, and check the court’s rules for this document.
- Check the specialist’s assumptions, qualifications and limits. Obtain the relevant expert or specialist review before relying on a technical conclusion.
- Preserve original files and relevant metadata. Document provenance and handling, and seek forensic review where authenticity needs to be resolved.
- 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.