Forum-Aware Disclosure Router for Brisbane Litigation Lawyers: Match AI-Use Disclosure to the Forum You’re Filing In
You’re running three live matters — an ART review, a Federal Court application, and a Queensland Supreme Court commercial dispute — and each forum has a different expectation about how (and when) you disclose AI use in preparation of the document. Your team drafted across all three this week, sometimes with model assistance, sometimes without. Now you’re staring at the disclosure paragraph and trying to remember which form goes where. The Forum-Aware Disclosure Router is built to take that decision off your desk.
The problem
AI-use disclosure obligations are not uniform across Australian forums. The Federal Court of Australia’s GPN-AI sets expectations for disclosure of generative AI use in documents prepared for proceedings. The Administrative Review Tribunal has issued practice directions covering expert evidence and the conduct of proceedings before it, with their own disclosure expectations for material prepared with AI assistance. State Supreme Courts — including the Supreme Court of Queensland — operate under their own rules and any directions made by the Chief Justice. A disclosure paragraph that satisfies the Federal Court will not necessarily satisfy the ART; a template drafted for ART may be insufficient or misaligned for a Queensland Supreme Court filing.
For a Brisbane litigation team running a mixed forum book, the real risk isn’t ignorance of the rules — it’s the wrong template attached to the wrong document under time pressure. AI-use disclosure non-compliance, even when accidental, sits adjacent to ASCR Rule 19 (candour to the court) and can become a professional conduct issue rather than a procedural one.
What the Forum-Aware Disclosure Router does
The Forum-Aware Disclosure Router is an Exegesis service shape that routes AI-use disclosure to the correct compliance template per forum. You tell it which forum you’re filing in (Federal Court, ART, Queensland Supreme Court, Federal Circuit and Family Court, High Court), describe how AI was used in preparing the document, and it returns the disclosure language and placement that matches the practice note or direction governing that forum. It does not generate substantive legal content — it selects and populates the compliance template that fits.
The router is deterministic. It maps (forum × AI-use-type × document-type) to a template derived from the primary practice document for that forum. If the forum-specific source doesn’t address a particular AI-use pattern, the router says so rather than guessing.
How it works
- Select forum and document type. Pick the bench (Federal Court, ART, QSC, etc.) and the document class (originating application, written submissions, affidavit, expert report).
- Describe AI use. Indicate where and how a generative model was used in preparation — drafting, summarising authorities, structuring evidence, none.
- Router maps to the governing instrument. The agent identifies the practice note or direction that applies (e.g. GPN-AI for the Federal Court, the relevant ART practice direction for tribunal matters).
- Disclosure template returned. The router outputs the disclosure paragraph in the form expected for that forum, with placement guidance (cover page, signature block, separate notice).
- Audit log entry. Every routing decision is logged with the forum, document type, AI-use category and template version — so your file shows which template you used and why.
Why this matters in Brisbane
A Brisbane litigation practice typically runs a forum mix that includes the Queensland Supreme Court, Federal Court (Queensland Registry), Federal Circuit and Family Court, and the ART for migration, NDIS, social services and veterans’ matters. Each of those forums sits under a different rulemaker. The Federal Court’s GPN-AI is one instrument; the ART’s practice directions are another; the Supreme Court of Queensland operates under the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld) and any directions issued by that court. The chance of muscle-memory error — pasting a Federal Court disclosure paragraph into an ART filing because that’s the form you used last — grows with caseload diversity. Routing the template by forum rather than by habit removes that failure mode.
The router does not replace the practitioner’s responsibility to verify against the source. It narrows the decision to “is this the right template for this forum today?” and gives you the audit trail to show you asked the question.
Sources
- Federal Court of Australia — Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Practice Note (GPN-AI): https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/law-and-practice/practice-documents/practice-notes/gpn-ai
- Administrative Review Tribunal — Practice Directions and Other Guidance: https://www.art.gov.au/help-and-resources/professionals-and-practitioners/practice-directions-and-other-guidance
- Federal Court of Australia — Rules, Acts & Regulations: https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/law-and-practice/rules-acts-and-regulations
- Law Council of Australia — Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules: https://lawcouncil.au/policy-agenda/regulation-of-the-profession-and-ethics/australian-solicitors-conduct-rules
Join the waitlist
The Forum-Aware Disclosure Router is in build. We’re scoping pricing (per-filing, per-user monthly, or firm-licence) based on the forum mix of teams on the waitlist. Tell us what you file and where, and we’ll let you know when access opens.