Checklist · Criminal Law
Queensland Supreme Court and District Court: check references in a submission
A check, before a submission is relied on, against the Queensland Supreme Court and District Court practice directions on accuracy of references. The named practitioner verifies each citation. A reference is not treated as real until that is done.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Australia, Queensland
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia and Queensland.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use before written or oral submissions are relied on in the Supreme Court of Queensland or the District Court of Queensland. The lawyer, not the model, is the responsible person named on the document.
Used for these tasks
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may extract citations from a draft into a list. It must not mark a citation as accurate. The practitioner named on the submission verifies every reference before it is relied on.
AI may
- Extract each case, section and other source mentioned in the draft into a row
- Leave the verification column blank
- Flag a row that has no pinpoint and no source name
AI must not
- Must not invent a case, a quote or a section to fill a gap
- Must not sign or place a practitioner's name on the submission
- Must not say that naming a firm is enough. Both directions say the individual practitioner must be named
The lawyer checks
- Each citation is opened in the source and supports the proposition
- The responsible person is an individual legal practitioner, named at the end of a written submission
- The Supreme Court PDF is checked for paragraph 7. The scrape jumps from paragraph 6 to paragraph 8
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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