Guidance
Before you put something into an AI tool, four questions decide whether you can. This is where we set out our view on each — signed, dated and reasoned, not a colour to take on trust. The legislation and the court and regulator guidance behind them live in our source library; this is the commentary. As everywhere here, it is guidance on using AI tools, not legal advice on your own situation.
1. Will I breach a confidentiality restriction?
Your duty to keep things confidential — and when using a third-party tool is, and is not, consistent with it.
2. Will I waive privilege?
Whether putting privileged material into a tool gives privilege up — and the harder question of whether it is privileged at all.
3. What about privacy?
The Privacy Act, personal information and overseas tools — and why a no-training setting or assurance does most of the work.
4. What about professional rules and guidelines?
How to comply with the Conduct rules, the Law Society’s AI guidance and the courts’ practice notes.
The source library
Every court, regulator and professional-body source behind this guidance — each with its live link and a dated Perma.cc record. Provider terms are kept separately.