---
title: "Legal risk table for a client's AI system"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/ai-decision-systems/client-ai-legal-risk-table"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a45-client-ai-legal-risk-table"
area_id: "A45"
kind: "memo"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A45-T1-R2"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Legal risk table for a client's AI system

> Internal table for advice on one client system: the facts taken from the client's papers, the questions the principal still has to answer, and the principal's rating on each risk.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/ai-decision-systems/client-ai-legal-risk-table  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Memo. An internal or advice memo.
- Practice area: [AI decision systems](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/ai-decision-systems.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 6 authorities it cites, for Australia.

## When to use it

Use when instructing a file on a client's decision system, before a letter of advice. It is not the advice and it is not the client's privacy policy. The impact-assessment form in this library is the longer assessment; this table is the one-page risk view.

## Used for these tasks

- [Build a legal-risk table for a client's AI system](https://ailawframework.com/obligations/ai-decision-systems/build-a-legal-risk-table-for-a-client-s-ai-system.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may put facts from the client's papers into the fact column and leave the rating blank. The principal writes the rating and any advice.

**AI may:**

- Extract system facts into the fact column from documents the principal supplies, with the document name
- List questions the papers do not answer

**AI must not:**

- Must not write the rating or the advice
- Must not assert that an Act applies if it was not opened
- Must not send the table to the client as a letter of advice

**The lawyer checks:**

- Each fact is traced to a client document, and gaps stay as gaps
- The principal has written every rating
- The table is not sent out until it is turned into advice the principal signs, or it is kept internal

## Authorities

- [OAIC, APP guidelines chapter 1 (APP 1.2, and APP 1.7 to 1.9 from 10 December 2026)](https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/australian-privacy-principles/australian-privacy-principles-guidelines/chapter-1-app-1-open-and-transparent-management-of-personal-information)
- [OAIC, APP guidelines chapter 6 (use and disclosure)](https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/australian-privacy-principles/australian-privacy-principles-guidelines/chapter-6-app-6-use-or-disclosure-of-personal-information)
- [OAIC, APP guidelines chapter 8 (cross-border disclosure)](https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/australian-privacy-principles/australian-privacy-principles-guidelines/chapter-8-app-8-cross-border-disclosure-of-personal-information)
- [OAIC, APP guidelines chapter 11 (security)](https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/australian-privacy-principles/australian-privacy-principles-guidelines/chapter-11-app-11-security-of-personal-information)
- [Statement on the use of artificial intelligence in Australian legal practice (6 December 2024), where the client is a law practice or the firm is using the system in legal work](https://www.lawsociety.com.au/sites/default/files/2024-12/LS4590_PSP_Statement_AI_LawSocietyVersion.pdf)
- [Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner, news item dated 6 December 2024, publishing the joint statement on the use of artificial intelligence in Australian legal practice](https://lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates/news/statement-use-artificial-intelligence-australian-legal-practice)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/ai-decision-systems/client-ai-legal-risk-table and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

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