---
title: Approve or reject a gifts and entertainment disclosure request
description: Approve or reject a gifts and entertainment disclosure request assigned to you or a Legal - Gifts Compliance group of which you're a member.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/legal-gifts-and-entertainment/lsd-approve-reject-ge-request.html
release: australia
product: Legal Gifts and Entertainment
classification: legal-gifts-and-entertainment
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Manage, Gifts and Entertainment Compliance, Legal Service Delivery Practice Applications, Legal Service Delivery, Legal and Contract Operations, Employee Service Management]
---

# Approve or reject a gifts and entertainment disclosure request

Approve or reject a gifts and entertainment disclosure request assigned to you or a Legal - Gifts Compliance group of which you're a member.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_lg\_gifts.gifts\_fulfiller or sn\_lg\_ops.request\_fulfiller

## About this task

The **Gifts Approval** flow available in the base system, automatically routes your gifts and entertainment disclosure request through multiple approval levels. Once your request gets approved, it moves on to the next level.

**Note:** If the approval is assigned to an approval group, any member from the group can approve or reject the request.

## Procedure

1.  Open the approval request

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**From Legal Counsel Center list**

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1.  Navigate to **All** &gt; **Legal Request** &gt; **Legal Counsel Center**.
2.  Select the list icon \(\[Omitted image "lsd-lcc-list-icon.png"\] Alt text: List icon\).
3.  In the **Lists** tab, under **My Work**, click **Items Pending Approval**.
4.  In the Items Pending Approval list, open a request by clicking the request number in the **Approving** column.


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**From Legal Counsel Center landing page**

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1.  Navigate to **All** &gt; **Legal Request** &gt; **Legal Counsel Center**.
2.  Select **View All** on the Pending approval widget
3.  Select the request for approval.


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**From Employee Center**

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1.  Navigate to **All** &gt; **Self Service** &gt; **Employee Center**
2.  On the menu bar, click the **My Tasks**.
3.  Under the Open tab, select the request for approval


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</table>2.  In the **Approvers** tab, click **Requested** in the **State** column to open the approval form.

3.  Approve or reject the request.

    -   To approve the gifts and entertainment disclosure request, click **Approve**.
    -   To reject the gifts and entertainment disclosure request, click **Reject**.

## Result

The approval status of the request is updated in the Approvers tab.

The following table shows the results of approve and reject actions on the approval request.

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Approve

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Reject

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-   The state of the current approval level in the request updates to Approved.
-   If available, the request advances to the next approval level and is assigned to an approver or approver group set in the approval level. The state of the next approval is set as Requested.
-   If the current approval is the last in the approval flow, the approval moves to the Approved state. The legal request status changes to Approved.

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-   The state of the current approval level in the request updates to Rejected.
-   All the subsequent approval levels in the approval flow are skipped.
-   The legal request status updates to Rejected.
-   The comments for rejection posted by the approver is added to the request.

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</table>**Parent Topic:**[Managing gifts and entertainment disclosure requests](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-gifts-and-entertainment/lsd-manage-ge-request.md)