Precedents: Knowledge Management
6 starting-point precedents for this area. Each one names the law it rests on and says how far AI may help.
- Precedents in this area
- 6
- Full text
- For signed-in accounts
- Newest law stated as at
- 17 October 2026
- Guidance for this area
- Tasks and AI use in Knowledge Management
| Precedent | Kind | Where it applies | AI use | Law stated as at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Precedent review and approval procedure (including AI-drafted and AI-updated precedents)A procedure for the life of every firm precedent: request, drafting, technical and legal review, approval by a named practitioner, publication to people and AI tools, monitoring for law changes, urgent fixes, versioning and retirement, with extra controls for AI-drafted content. | Policy | Australia | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
| Precedent metadata and version-control standard (for people and AI retrieval)A field-by-field metadata standard for firm precedents, covering status, jurisdiction, authorities and their currency, licence and provenance, confidentiality, AI-assisted flags, approver and review dates, with rules that AI retrieval tools must follow. | Other | Australia | Green | 17 October 2026 |
| AI prompt library governance policy (prompt templates linked to precedents and tasks)A policy that treats prompts as firm know-how: how prompt templates are designed with guardrails, tested, approved, versioned, linked to precedents, re-tested after model changes, used only in approved tools and retired, with a template skeleton and test record. | Policy | Australia, New South Wales | Green | 17 October 2026 |
| Knowledge-base content licensing and copyright checklist (before AI ingestion)A checklist to confirm that each source added to a firm knowledge base or AI index is owned by the firm or licensed for that use, covering ownership, publisher and site terms, court forms, legislation and judgments, open licences, Australian exceptions and confidentiality. | Checklist | Australia, United Kingdom (England and Wales), United States, European Union | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
| Matter close-out know-how capture form with confidentiality scrubA close-out form that captures precedents, clauses, deal points and lessons from a finished matter, with a confidentiality and privilege scrub, information-barrier and restricted-material checks, rules for AI-assisted drafting of know-how, and sign-off before anything enters the knowledge base. | Form | Australia | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
| AI knowledge assistant governance and source-citation policy (permission-aware search, information barriers, citations)A policy for a firm AI knowledge assistant: approved sources, permission-aware retrieval that respects matter security and information barriers, mandatory source citations, "not found" behaviour, user verification duties, index hygiene and retention, audits and incidents. | Policy | Australia, New South Wales | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
AI use levels: Green means AI can do most of the drafting and a lawyer reviews it. Yellow means AI helps in set ways and a lawyer checks specific points. Red means a lawyer does the work and AI stays out of the decisive steps.