---
title: "Precedent review and approval procedure (including AI-drafted and AI-updated precedents)"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/knowledge-management/precedent-review-approval-policy"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "km-precedent-review-approval-policy"
area_id: "KM"
kind: "policy"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-17"
---

# 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,…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/knowledge-management/precedent-review-approval-policy  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-17

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

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.

## Key facts

- Kind: Policy. A policy or procedure for a firm or client.
- Practice area: [Knowledge Management](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/knowledge-management.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia
- 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 6 authorities it cites, for Australia.

## When to use it

Use to govern a firm's precedent bank, clause library and practice notes, especially once AI tools draft or update precedents or retrieve them for lawyers. It does not replace the supervising lawyer's review of a precedent as adapted for a particular matter.

## How AI may be used

AI may find precedents affected by a law change, draft marked-up updates and run consistency checks. A named practitioner reviews every AI-drafted or AI-updated precedent in full and approves it before it is published to lawyers or to AI retrieval.

**AI may:**

- Find every precedent that cites an amended or repealed provision and draft marked-up changes for the reviewer.
- Check precedents against the metadata standard and flag missing fields, expired review dates and broken links.
- Compare a draft with the existing precedent and produce a change summary for the approver.

**AI must not:**

- Must not approve or publish a precedent, or change an approved precedent without a new review.
- Must not verify its own citations; authorities are checked against official registers by a person.
- Must not use client documents as drafting sources unless they have been cleared under the know-how capture form.

**The lawyer checks:**

- The reviewer read the full text, not only the change summary.
- Every authority was checked against an official register on the date recorded.
- Licence status, jurisdiction tags and the AI-assisted flag are correct before publication.

## Authorities

- [Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 r 4.1.3 (competence and diligence)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2015-0244)
- [Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 r 37 (supervision of legal services)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2015-0244)
- [Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 r 9 (confidentiality)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2015-0244)
- [Law Society of NSW, Legal Practice Board of WA and Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner, Statement on the use of artificial intelligence in Australian legal practice (6 December 2024)](https://lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates/news/statement-use-artificial-intelligence-australian-legal-practice)
- [Federal Court of Australia, Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Practice Note (GPN-AI) (16 April 2026) 4.5](https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/law-and-practice/practice-documents/practice-notes/gpn-ai)
- [Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) ss 31 and 36 (exclusive rights; infringement)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1968A00063/latest/text)

## 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/knowledge-management/precedent-review-approval-policy 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.*