Learn: compliance guides for AI in Australian practices.
Plain-English guides to the obligations that shape AI adoption in Australian professional practices. Written to be taken into a partners' meeting: measured, cited to primary sources, and honest about what is settled and what is not. Each guide is general information rather than advice.
Compliance guides
How APP 6, APP 8 and APP 11 apply when Australian businesses use AI tools, why cross-border disclosure is the core question, and what deployment…
Read the guide → Legal professional privilege and AI: where the real risk sits.Privilege, rule 9 confidentiality and AI: what the December 2024 regulators’ joint statement says, where waiver risk actually arises, and the…
Read the guide → AI and your obligations as an accountant: APES 110, the TPB and client data.APES 110 section 114, the TPB Code of Professional Conduct and ATO expectations applied to AI tools, with a practical checklist for evaluating any…
Read the guide → AI and patient data: what practices can and cannot do.Health information as sensitive information, the My Health Records Act, state health records laws, why de-identification is harder than it sounds,…
Read the guide →AI in legal practice: the regulators’ guidance
A plain-English series on the joint regulators’ statement and the NSW Law Society’s solicitor’s guide (updated January 2026): what each obligation requires, with links to the primary sources.
What the NSW Law Society’s January 2026 solicitor’s guide and the December 2024 joint regulators’ statement expect on confidentiality, court duties,…
Read the guide → AI and client confidentiality: what rule 9 requires.The regulators say confidential client information cannot safely be entered into public AI chatbots. What rule 9 requires, how commercial tools…
Read the guide → Hallucinated citations and the duty to the court.Australian practitioners have faced costs orders and regulatory action over AI-fabricated authorities. What rules 4 and 19 require, the cases so far,…
Read the guide → Supervising AI in a law firm: rule 37 in practice.Principals are responsible for how their practice uses AI under s 34 and rule 37. What the regulators expect firms to show, why junior staff cannot…
Read the guide → AI and legal costs: billing the work actually done.Bills must reflect work actually done, and AI use should not raise costs to clients. How the Uniform Law costs provisions apply to AI-assisted work,…
Read the guide → The firm AI policy: what the regulators expect in it.The regulators expect clear, risk-based AI policies, available to clients on request. The sections the guidance says a policy must cover, why generic…
Read the guide → Choosing legal AI tools: the questions the guide says to ask.The Law Society guide sets out the questions to ask before adopting any AI tool: contract terms, data access, training sources, least privilege,…
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