---
title: "Plan a Victorian first conference against the State's guiding principles"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/plan-a-first-conference-so-the-account-is-not-turned-into-a-draft/victoria"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-AB20261023-9-VIC"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["VIC"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Plan a Victorian first conference against the State's guiding principles

> From the firm's conference checklist and the support needs the lawyer has marked, prepare a plan of who may attend, breaks, and which records to collect before any account is taken. Write none of the client's account.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/plan-a-first-conference-so-the-account-is-not-turned-into-a-draft/victoria  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | From the firm's conference checklist and the support needs the lawyer has marked, prepare a plan of who may attend, breaks, and which records to collect before any account is taken. Write none of the client's account. |
| What the lawyer must review | The lawyer takes any account. Do not let the plan become a draft the client adopts. Check that the principles are used only as non-binding guidance for State child-sexual-abuse claims. Do not apply them of themselves to a church or a private school. Keep the file in the firm's system. ASCR r 9 and APP 11 apply. |
| Written for | Victoria |
| Applies to | [Plan a first conference so the account is not turned into a draft](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/plan-a-first-conference-so-the-account-is-not-turned-into-a-draft.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The lawyer runs the conference. The tool writes a plan and writes no account.

- What the AI does: From the firm's conference checklist and the support needs the lawyer has marked, prepare a plan of who may attend, breaks, and which records to collect before any account is taken. Write none of the client's account.
- What the lawyer does: Make the legal assessment, check the source material and authorise the output for its intended use.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in this practice area
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. The Common Guiding Principles are not binding. They inform responses to civil claims of child sexual abuse connected with State institutions.
2. They say departments should be mindful that litigation may be traumatic, should ordinarily not require a confidentiality clause, and should offer a written apology where they consider it appropriate.
3. They say departments should develop pastoral letters that acknowledge claims. They do not promise access to records.
4. The plan lists records to collect. It does not summarise what the client says happened, and it is not a document for the client to sign.

## Notes

- If the defendant is not the State, do not present the principles as applying of their own force.
- If this is used in a Supreme Court document, the Court's news page on Practice Note SC Gen 25 says court users are responsible for the content whether or not they used AI.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Victoria. A first conference in the firm. The principles are for departments responding to claims connected with State institutions.

**Deliverable**: A conference plan covering support, breaks and the records to collect before an account is taken.

**Inputs**

- The lawyer's support notes
- Whether the defendant is the State
- The records already held

**Example**: Illustrative example: The defendant is a private school. The tool lists the records to ask for and does not say the State's principles bind the school. It writes none of the client's account.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The plan starts to summarise the abuse.
- The client is asked to sign or adopt the plan.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [Victorian Common Guiding Principles for child sexual abuse civil claims](https://www.justice.vic.gov.au/justice-system/laws-and-regulation/common-guiding-principles-child-sexual-abuse-civil-claims) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Supreme Court of Victoria news page on Practice Note SC Gen 25](https://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/news/new-practice-note-and-judicial-guidelines-on-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 (NSW) r 9.1](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2015-0244) (checked 2026-10-23)

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*