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title: "Firm protocol: using AI in family violence matters (address protection and client safety)"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/ai-safety-confidentiality-protocol"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a53-ai-safety-confidentiality-protocol"
area_id: "A53"
kind: "policy"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-17"
---

# Firm protocol: using AI in family violence matters (address protection and client safety)

> Internal protocol setting what information may never enter AI tools in family violence matters, which tasks AI may assist with and under what controls, how sworn statements are protected, and how to check outgoing…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/ai-safety-confidentiality-protocol  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-17

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Internal protocol setting what information may never enter AI tools in family violence matters, which tasks AI may assist with and under what controls, how sworn statements are protected, and how to check outgoing documents for location leaks.

## Key facts

- Kind: Policy. A policy or procedure for a firm or client.
- Practice area: [Family Violence & Protection Orders](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia, New South Wales, Commonwealth
- AI level: Yellow. AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-17
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-17 against the 5 authorities it cites, for Australia, New South Wales and Commonwealth.

## When to use it

Adopt as a firm policy for all protection order, family law and related matters involving family violence. Review whenever the firm adds or changes an AI tool, and when court AI practice notes change.

## How AI may be used

This protocol permits a short list of bounded tasks in approved closed tools with close supervision, bars all use with safety-critical information, and keeps sworn material and advice lawyer-led.

**AI may:**

- Build a dated chronology and evidence index from documents the lawyer has selected and redacted
- Build an order, service and expiry register from sealed orders and service records
- Populate a prescribed form for the lawyer to check, other than the statement or narrative

**AI must not:**

- Must not receive restricted safety information as defined in the protocol
- Must not write, complete or rephrase any statement, affidavit or grounds
- Must not assess risk, characterise conduct, or decide who is the person most in need of protection
- Must not be used through public or consumer AI accounts for any client work

**The lawyer checks:**

- Tool approval and task category before use on each matter
- Redaction of restricted safety information before any document is processed
- Location-leak check on every outgoing document

## Authorities

- [Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 rr 4.1.3, 9, 37 (competence; confidentiality; supervision)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2015-0244)
- [Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007 (NSW) ss 43, 45 (address non-disclosure; publication of children's names)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2007-080)
- [Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) Pt XIVB, s 114Q (communicating an account of proceedings that identifies parties or children)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00275/latest/text)
- [Supreme Court of NSW Practice Note SC Gen 23 paras 9A, 12, 13 (adopted by the Local Court of NSW from 12 January 2026)](https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/documents/Practice-and-Procedure/Practice-Notes/general/current/PN_SC_Gen_23.pdf)
- [Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, Practice Direction: Use of Artificial Intelligence (PD-AI), paras 3.3(e), 4.9, 5.4, 5.5](https://www.fcfcoa.gov.au/pd/pd-ai)

## 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/family-violence-and-protection-orders/ai-safety-confidentiality-protocol 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.*