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AI decision system impact and fairness assessment (firm or client systems)
Assessment form for any AI or automated system that makes or informs decisions about people: maps decisions and affected people, data, legal risks (privacy, discrimination, consumer, sector rules, EU AI Act), testing, human review, transparency and sign-off.
- Kind
- Form. A form to complete, or a guide to completing an official one.
- Where it applies
- Australia, European Union
- AI use
- Yellow AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at
- 17 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 17 October 2026 against the 10 authorities it cites, for Australia and European Union.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Complete before deploying or materially changing a system that makes or informs decisions about individuals (recruitment, performance, intake triage, AML/CTF risk rating, credit, claims), whether the firm's own or a client's system the firm is advising on. Not needed for tools that only assist drafting.
How AI may be used
AI can structure the assessment from the system description and tabulate test outcomes on a lawyer-approved test set, but mapping which decisions significantly affect people, and judging legality and fairness, is lawyer-led.
AI may
- Structure the assessment from the system description: data flows, affected people, decisions, risks and sign-off questions.
- From a lawyer-approved test set, tabulate outcomes by the attributes the lawyer has listed and mark unexplained differences.
- List candidate privacy, discrimination, consumer and sector issues with the documents that support each row.
AI must not
- Must not decide whether a decision "significantly affects" an individual or whether a difference in outcomes is lawful.
- Must not use real personal information for testing unless approved and minimised.
- Must not sign off the assessment.
The lawyer checks
- Every decision the system makes or informs is mapped, including refusals and failures to act.
- Testing covered the relevant attributes and the results are explained or remedied.
- A person can review and override each significant decision, and affected people can seek review.
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
Official form
Open the official form. Always use the current version from the issuer.
Read the full text
The full text is for signed-in accounts. It is free. When you sign in you can:
- read the whole precedent, with its drafting notes beside it;
- copy it, or download it as a Word file or Markdown;
- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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- Law firm AI use policy (master firm policy)
- Approved AI tools register (template with field guide)
- AI vendor due-diligence questionnaire for law firms (master version)
- AI incident response procedure for law firms (master procedure for all AI incidents)
- Privacy policy clause on automated decisions (APP 1.7 to 1.9, from 10 December 2026)
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