What Matter Desk knows.
Built on Australian legislation, landmark case law, and court procedural rules. Continuously expanding.
9
Australian jurisdictions
190K+
Legislation documents
560K+
Authorities indexed
230+
Court and limitation rules
Every state. Every territory. Federal.
New South Wales
Limitation periods, conveyancing, real property, civil procedure, strata, workers compensation, residential tenancies
Victoria
Limitation periods, property law, sale of land, workplace injury, residential tenancies, supreme court procedures
Queensland
Limitation periods, property law, body corporate management, civil procedure
South Australia
Limitation periods, real property, supreme court civil rules
Western Australia
Limitation periods, transfer of land, supreme court rules
Tasmania
Limitation periods, land titles, conveyancing, supreme court rules
ACT
Limitation periods, civil law property, land titles, court procedures
Northern Territory
Limitation periods, land title, law of property, supreme court rules
Commonwealth
Corporations, fair work, competition and consumer, privacy, migration, family law, bankruptcy, insurance, credit, personal property securities
Things most AI gets wrong about Australian law.
Matter Desk is built to handle the details that generic AI tools miss.
Northern Territory has a 6-year limitation period for contract claims.
NT is 3 years, not 6. The Limitation Act 1981 (NT) s 12(1)(b) is different from every other state. Matter Desk knows this.
Unfair dismissal is a state matter.
It is exclusively federal under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) s 394. Matter Desk redirects you to the correct jurisdiction automatically.
Cooling-off periods are the same across Australia.
NSW is 5 business days, Victoria is 3, Queensland is 5, South Australia is 2, and Western Australia has none for private sales. Matter Desk calculates per state.
One limitation period fits all personal injury claims.
Victoria has a discoverability provision. Tasmania links to the Defamation Act for defamation claims. The periods, tolling rules, and extensions differ by state.
Strongest in the areas that matter most.
Commercial
StrongDirectors duties, shareholder disputes, contract enforcement, competition law, insolvency
Property
StrongConveyancing, limitation periods, strata disputes, cooling-off periods, settlement deadlines
Employment
StrongUnfair dismissal, general protections, enterprise agreements, workplace injury
Litigation
StrongCourt filing deadlines, limitation periods, civil procedure, costs
Family
GrowingProperty settlement, parenting orders, financial agreements. Court-specific deadlines on roadmap.
Criminal
LimitedNot a current focus area. General legislative coverage only.
How citations are verified.
Matched, not generated
Every citation is matched against our indexed Australian legal corpus. If it is not in the corpus, it is not cited.
Flagged, not fabricated
When an authority cannot be verified, Matter Desk shows 'Authority not verified' explicitly. No invented cases. No fake statutes.
Linked to source
Citations link to the original text so you can verify in seconds. Not a black box.
Human review required
Every AI output requires practitioner sign-off before client use. Enforced in the product, not just a disclaimer.
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