Memo · Knowledge Management
Judgment know-how note
Internal note of a decision the practice will rely on: the citation, the holding in the note-writer's words after reading the judgment, what it does not decide, and which precedents to revisit.
- Kind
- Memo. An internal or advice memo.
- Where it applies
- Australia
- 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 3 authorities it cites, for Australia.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a practice group wants a decision recorded for later retrieval. The note points to the official judgment. It is not a substitute for reading it, and it is not a document to file.
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
In an approved tool, AI may draft a note from the judgment text the lawyer supplies, and the lawyer checks every holding and quotation against that judgment before the note is published.
AI may
- Draft section headings and a proposed statement of the holding from the judgment text supplied in an approved tool.
- List paragraph numbers where a specified defined term appears.
- List precedents in the bank that cite the same Act section, for the owner to consider.
AI must not
- Must not add a quotation, a paragraph number or a holding that is not in the text supplied.
- Must not publish the note to the know-how collection or to AI retrieval.
- Must not summarise the judgment from memory or from a news article when the judgment has not been supplied.
The lawyer checks
- The lawyer read the judgment, not only the draft note.
- Every quotation and paragraph number matches the official text.
- The note states the court, the date, and whether the decision is on appeal, if that is known from the sources opened.
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 available after you log in. It is free. When you log 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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