Section 32 and contract review for Victorian firms

Victorian contracts and Section 32 statements come in every shape conveyancers can imagine. No standard form, no consistent layout, every transaction unique. Curia takes the lot, contract and Section 32 together, from PDFs to a finished customer report and amendment list for the vendor's solicitor. A guided flow walks you from start to finish, with validation and cross-checks running throughout. You stay in charge of every call and every word that goes out. AI handles the data work. You handle the legal calls.

Inside the workflow

A guided workflow from upload to report

Upload the combined contract and Section 32. Curia gets to work, whatever shape your contracts take. AI reads every page and extracts every detail into a pre-populated review. Owners corporation details, vendor warranties, planning property reports, special conditions, lot/plan and beyond, all in front of you before you start. The process is configured to your firm's needs with customised control, your content and the integrations with software you already use.

When a client interrupts you mid-review, the workflow holds your place. You come back to exactly where you left off. New staff get the same path through a file as the senior practitioner without having to memorise it, and every file gets the same depth of review on a busy week or a quiet one.

Automation that keeps you in control

Curia computes the regulatory defaults that apply to the file, like GST treatment, land tax adjustments and owners corporation contributions, and pre-fills the review. Your firm's preferred wording feeds in from the Library. You confirm, edit or override. You're never typing from a blank page.

When the review is complete, Curia generates the customer report and the amendment list for the vendor's solicitor. Add, reword, reorder or remove anything before it's finalised.

Every document in the file, read and reconciled

Curia processes the full Victorian disclosure pack, not just the contract. For a typical VIC transaction, that means contract particulars, title search, owners corporation certificate and OC search report, s199 planning certificate, property report, planning property report, water information certificate, land information certificate, SRO clearance certificates, general conditions, special conditions, encumbrances and dealings, roads certificate, tenancy agreements, and pool certificates.

Each document is parsed and every relevant detail extracted. Values are cross-checked across the file before you begin review.

This is what separates a workflow product from an AI summariser. Coverage across the whole file. The work a careful conveyancer would do by hand, done before you sit down to review.

Gately Conveyancing pairs 30+ years of NSW and VIC conveyancing experience with Curia's AI suggestions to deliver more detailed advice in half the time.

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Report preview

See what your client gets. Branded with your logo, colours and wording. Fully editable before it's sent.

The Summary

Every key fact laid out for the client at a glance. Details follow the summary.

The findings

Each element can be backed by visual evidence and source citations.

The amendments

A separate list for the vendor's solicitor. Auto generated from your review.

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Features

Everything you need for fast, accurate and consistent contract reviews.

01

Before you start

4 features

• Data extraction and population → Curia reads every page of your contract and writes the values straight into your review. Front page, special conditions, dealings, planning certificates, the lot.
• Preflight → A pre-review health check that runs the moment a contract lands. Curia cross-checks data across the file, confirms the prescribed documents are attached and flags anything missing with colour-coded priority alerts.
• Cross-Document Verification → Curia keeps the values that should agree across a contract bundle in lockstep, and flags documents whose validity has lapsed before they cause trouble at settlement.
• Edge Case Coverage → Two pools, three tenancies, four Owners Corporations, an off-the-plan lot inside a multi-title contract. Curia handles the long tail of file shapes that fall through other tools.

02

While you review

5 features

Visual Reference Pull a page out of the contract PDF, mark it up with arrows, highlights and notes, and drop it straight into the purchaser's report. Hard clauses, explained visually. Learn more →

• Contract navigation → A document map of the whole contract, jump-to-citation buttons on every extracted field, and a PDF that scrolls to your work as you move. Never lose your place.
• Ria Findings → AI Findings at the high-stakes calls in a contract review. Each sets an answer, the reasoning and a citation to the page and clause.
• Smart Prefill for VIC → Curia reads every general and special condition, summarises each in plain English for this contract and maps what amends, overrides or deletes what. You keep the call on every clause.
• Library → A pre-built collection of clauses, dealings and recommendations Australian conveyancers actually use, customisable to your firm's language. One source of truth your reviews draw from, file after file.

03

The result

4 features

Property Imagery Aerial imagery with your purchaser's lot outlined, generated automatically from government backed data and built straight into the report. Learn more →

• Personalised Reports → Send a report that looks and reads like your firm's work. Curia handles the structure and the standing content, you add the comments and risk ratings that matter for the property.
• Amendment List → The amendment list builds itself as you review. Every visible recommendation goes on, anything you hide stays off, and the finished document is ready to send to the vendor's solicitor.
• Report Versions → Every report you download is captured as a fixed version, so you have a dated record of exactly what each client received. Re-download or view any version later, unchanged by anything edited since.

04

Behind every file

5 features

• Reporting & Analytics → Live dashboards that show how your week is tracking, where files are stuck, and where the time is really going. No spreadsheet exports, no month-end guesswork.
• CRM integrations → Connect Curia to your practice management system so your contacts and matters sync automatically, and every review is findable by the purchaser, address and matter details you already track.
• Unified Workspace → One place for your whole team to work. Link the contacts and matters behind your reviews to organise work the way your practice runs, connect your CRM if you use one, and find any review by client, matter or property.
• Security Data hosted onshore in Australia, encrypted to current standards in transit and at rest. Built to satisfy your firm's IT requirements without a complex review.
• Support Australian-based support by phone and email, 7 days a week. We work when you do.

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Customer story

Victorian Statewide Conveyancing

Across Victoria

Director Peter Gajanovic cut average contract review time from 60 minutes to 15 - a 75% reduction - while producing more detailed reports that clients and agents call professional and easy to understand.

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