Product updates
Add a Google Doc to a brief, and have it reviewed
Pick a doc once in Google’s own picker. A PDF copy goes into the brief, and the review notes you confirm go back into the doc as comments and suggested changes.
The Barrister AI blog
News and updates about Barrister AI
High Court decisions as they land, the research behind our work, and what we’ve shipped.
What’s new
Product updates
Ask what sentences have been imposed for a NSW offence
Name the offence and get comparable sentences, with figures Barrister AI can trace.
Product updates
Ask us to prioritise an Act that is down for repairs
An Act we hold but are not currently serving now says so, with a button to request it, instead of Page not found.
Product updates
See what a Briefs answer actually read
New answers on the website carry a note of what was read, counted by the system, and say so if a limit cut the reading short.
Product updates
Ask Briefs for a marked-up copy of a document
Red additions, crossed-out deletions and labelled research notes, on a separate copy. Your original is unchanged.
Product updates
Fact-check an open document against the whole brief
Ask about the document in front of you, with the rest of the brief behind it.
Product updates
Highlight passages in the documents in your brief
The same highlighting you use on answers and drafts now works in an opened document.
The newsletter
The High Court, every week.
New High Court of Australia decisions, summarised for practitioners. Free, and no account required.
From the High Court
- Commissioner of Taxation v Merchant; Merchant v Commissioner of TaxationWhen an intra-group share sale is a 'wash sale' under s 177D but debt forgiveness is not dividend stripping under s 177E[2026] HCA 39
- Uber Australia Pty Ltd v Chief Commissioner of State RevenueWhether a rideshare platform is liable for payroll tax on fares remitted to drivers under 'relevant contracts'[2026] HCA 40
- Smith v Chief Executive, Queensland Corrective ServicesWhether 'assisted reproductive technology' in s 22(2) of the Corrective Services Act 2006 (Qld) captures egg extraction and freezing by a prisoner[2026] HCA 37
- Morton v Minister for Immigration and CitizenshipWhen sequential reasons under Direction 110 do and do not reveal a failure to consider mandatory matters[2026] HCA 38
- Dale Haines by his litigation guardian Barbara Ramjan v Attorney General of NSWWhen both limbs of a cumulative statutory test are decided against an appellant, error must be shown on both[2026] HCA 34
- EGH19 v Minister for Immigration & CitizenshipWhen a non-citizen is irremovable, can cancelling their protection visa still serve community protection under s 501CA(4)?[2026] HCA 33
- Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave Funding) Corporation v Orica Australia Pty LtdWhether an award exclusion tied to the employer's industry status applies to the location limb of the "eligible employee" definition in the coal LSL scheme[2026] HCA 30
- GXT25 v Minister for Immigration and CitizenshipWhen delayed disclosure of a sexual-orientation claim can ground a fabrication finding without notice to the applicant[2026] HCA 32
Long reads
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“Am I risking privilege by using this?”
What actually happens to client material inside Barrister AI, how we think that maps onto the rules you already practise under, and what the bar guidance still asks of you.
Announcements
Six months. One idea: check our work.
A citator, the whole legislation suite, an iPhone app, and pinpoints checked against the judgment.
Announcements
Is it within range? Now you can ask.
Comparable sentences, with every figure traced to the judgment.