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The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Guidelines for Responsible Use by Non-Lawyers

Queensland Courts · Queensland

last revised 2025-09-15last verified 2026-10-052 versionscountry page →

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Queensland Courts guidelines for non-lawyers using generative AI, issued 13 May 2024 and revised 15 September 2025. Non-lawyers must check AI output before relying on it in court, keep private, confidential, suppressed and privileged information out of chatbots, and keep affidavits in the deponent's own words; fake citations causing delay risk costs orders.

Applies to
litigants
Effective
13 May 2024
Current version
Revised version (15 September 2025) · 15 Sept 2025
Last verified
05 Oct 2026
Official text
www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/867502/artificial-in…

What the document requires

  • Section 2: do not enter private, confidential, suppressed or legally privileged information into a generative AI chatbot.
  • Section 3: check the accuracy of any information from a generative AI chatbot before relying on it; AI can invent cases, citations and quotes.
  • Section 3 (added 2025): relying on fake citations or inaccurate AI-generated information that delays the hearing may result in a costs order.
  • Section 1 (added 2025): an affidavit or witness statement prepared with AI help must accurately reflect the person's own knowledge and words.
  • Applies to civil and criminal proceedings across Queensland courts and tribunals, including the Supreme, District and Magistrates Courts.

Version history

VersionDateWhat changedSource
Revised version (15 September 2025)current2025-09-15Section 1 adds a caution that a generative AI tool used to help prepare an affidavit or witness statement must leave the document sworn, affirmed or finalised in a way that accurately reflects the person's own knowledge and words. Section 3 adds that relying in court on fake citations or inaccurate AI-generated information that delays the hearing may lead to a costs order. Claude is added to the named examples, Appendix A notes that some generative AI tools take actions, and the FAQ's April 2023 ChatGPT training-date example is removed.official · archive
Original (13 May 2024)2024-05-13First version recorded.official · archive

Sources

Cite this record

SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Guidelines for Responsible Use by Non-Lawyers" (Queensland Courts, Revised version (15 September 2025), 2025-09-15), safelegalai.com/regulation/australia/qld-courts-generative-ai-guidelines-non-lawyers (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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