Checklist · Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Gen AI verification checklist and disclosure wording for court documents (Federal Court, NSW, Victoria, Queensland)
A pre-filing checklist and court-specific wording for documents prepared with generative AI: input restrictions, verification of authorities and evidence, NSW affidavit and submission statements, Federal Court disclosure, Victorian records and Queensland naming.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland
- AI use
- Red Keep AI out of the decisive steps. A lawyer does the work.
- Law stated as at
- 17 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 17 October 2026 against the 11 authorities it cites, for 4 jurisdictions.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use before filing or serving any pleading, submission, chronology, list of documents, affidavit or expert report in an Australian court where anyone in the team used a generative AI tool, and for every affidavit or witness statement filed in a NSW court (which must state that Gen AI was not used). Read the court's current practice note on the day; this kit does not replace it.
How AI may be used
Verification is lawyer-led. AI may extract citations, quotations and evidence references from a draft into a checking table, but a person must check each one against the primary source. Asking an AI tool to confirm its own or another tool's output is not verification.
AI may
- Extract every citation, pinpoint, quotation and evidence reference from a draft into a checking table
- Flag citation-format inconsistencies and references that do not match the court book index
- Compile, from the matter's AI-use log, a list of the paragraphs where AI was used, for the lawyer to confirm
AI must not
- Must not be used to confirm that an authority exists or says what is claimed
- Must not draft, alter or rephrase the content of an affidavit, witness statement or character reference
- Must not prepare any part of an expert report for a NSW court unless the court has given leave
- Must not be given suppressed, subpoenaed or compulsorily produced material unless the court's conditions are met
The lawyer checks
- Each authority was read in an authorised report or official register and supports the proposition
- Each evidence reference exists in the court book or evidence and is reasonably likely to be admissible
- The disclosure or verification wording required by the court is included and true
- The supervising solicitor has signed off the AI-use record for the document
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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