Draft conciliation or hearing submissions for the Fair Work Commission
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Draft a submissions outline and chronology for FWC conciliation or hearing, mapped to the applicable test, with the FWC authorities the lawyer asked to consider.
- What the lawyer must review
- Verify every citation on AustLII or the FWC database (see Riley v Nuvei [2026] FWC 75)
- Disclose GenAI use as the FWC exposure draft Guidance Note (March 2026, not final) requires
- Certify the content is checked and hyperlink cited cases (practitioners and paid agents)
- Confirm witness statements come from the deponent's own knowledge
- Remember non-compliance risks adverse credibility findings, costs or dismissal
- Apply the right test: s.387 unfair dismissal; s.361 reverse onus; s.389 genuine redundancy
- Written for / version
- Commonwealth versionCth
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 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.
- 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.
- 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.