Checklist · Child Protection & Care Proceedings
Dispute resolution conference preparation checklist for a parent’s or child’s lawyer (NSW Children’s Court)
Checklist to prepare for a Children’s Registrar dispute resolution conference under s 65: instructions and authority to settle, filed and subpoenaed material, attendees and notice, the issues, proposed orders, confidentiality and the post-conference steps.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales
- AI use
- Yellow AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at
- 18 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 18 October 2026 against the 4 authorities it cites, for New South Wales.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a care application in the Children’s Court of NSW has been listed for a dispute resolution conference under s 65, or the court has referred the parties to external ADR under s 65A. It suits the parent’s lawyer and, adapted, the child’s legal representative.
How AI may be used
AI may index the filed and subpoenaed material and list issues for the lawyer to test; the lawyer takes instructions, settles the position and agrees any orders.
AI may
- Index the filed and subpoenaed material, with dates and authors, so the lawyer can confirm everything has been read
- List the allegations in the care application and the documents said to support each one, for the lawyer to test
- Turn the lawyer’s agreed positions into a draft table of proposed orders for the lawyer to settle
AI must not
- Must not take or record the client’s instructions or authority to settle
- Must not prepare any statement of the child’s views
- Must not process what is said at the conference: it is confidential under Chapter 15A
- Must not be used with departmental records in a tool outside the firm’s approved environment
The lawyer checks
- Instructions were updated before the conference and the authority to settle is recorded and signed (PN 3 para 8.1)
- All filing directions have been complied with and every filed and relevant subpoenaed document has been read
- Reasonable notice has been given to the Registrar and the parties of any support person, kinship member, carer or expert who is to attend (PN 3 para 4.3)
- Any proposed consent orders are within power and the client understands the court may still decline to make them
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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.
More in Child Protection & Care Proceedings
- Children's Court of NSW care and protection forms: which form, when, and how to complete it safely
- Plain-language letter to a child or young person client from their direct legal representative (NSW care proceedings)
- Application to rescind or vary a care order (s 90, Form 3): leave checklist and supporting affidavit outline (NSW)
- Plain-language letter of advice to a parent in NSW care proceedings
- Victorian child protection proceedings: stage-by-stage checklist for a parent’s lawyer (Children’s Court family division)
- Checklist: testing the care plan and permanency plan against the statutory requirements (NSW)
- Letter to the department requesting reports, Form B, CRIS notes and documents before a child protection hearing (Victoria)
- Firm protocol: AI use with child protection records
- Checklist: AI-assisted review of subpoenaed casework files in care proceedings
All precedents for Child Protection & Care Proceedings · Tasks and AI use in this area