Draft in-rem arrest papers under the Admiralty Act 1988
Key facts
- Human involvement
- RedLawyer-led
- How AI is used
- The tool writes nothing into any of the papers — not the in rem writ, not the arrest-warrant affidavit and not a caveat against release: no draft, no first draft, no scaffold, no suggested paragraphs. It sets out in a table the ship’s name, IMO number, flag, registered owner and demise charterer from the ship search, tabulates each claim beside the Admiralty Act 1988 s 4 category the lawyer has marked for it and proposes no characterisation of its own, indexes the annexures, lists every assertion in the lawyer’s draft with no source in the claim documents or the searches, and checks the papers against the filing requirements in the Admiralty Rules.
- What the lawyer must review
- Check the claim is a maritime claim under s 4
- Check the relevant person and any surrogate ship (s 19)
- Confirm the ship is in an Australian port now
- Check caveats against arrest and security for release
- Disclose AI use and verify authorities under GPN-AI (April 2026) (ASCR r 19)
- Written for / version
- Commonwealth versionCth
Rules that apply
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Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Supporting preparation only. Potential support includes extracting and organising information and preparing preliminary structure or wording. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. Substantive advice, judgement and any restricted content remain with the responsible human. |
| Lawyer | Perform the substantive analysis and decisions. Independently check any permitted supporting work and approve the exact output for its intended use. |
Checklist
- Open each relied-on authority independently. Confirm its existence, current status, proposition and any quotation or pinpoint reference.
- Review operative clauses in the complete document, including definitions, cross-references, schedules and inconsistencies with the instructions.
- 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.