Check a New South Wales court book against the Practice Note 16 limits
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the proposed court book, flag a document that is not specifically relevant and any duplicate, and list the schedules that are due three clear days before the hearing. The tool does not decide the tender.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer decides what is tendered.
- If a court book is prepared, limit it to documents specifically relevant to that party's case.
- Avoid duplication as far as possible.
- File and serve the objections schedule, and serve the other schedules, at least three clear days before the hearing.
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. District Court of New South Wales General List, standard orders for hearings in Practice Note 16
Produce. A marked court-book index and a list of the schedules and their dates.
Have ready. The proposed court book; The hearing date; The expert reports to be tendered.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: The book contains two copies of the same report and a bundle of unread clinical notes. The checklist flags both. The lawyer keeps only the documents to be tendered.
Stop and hand it back when
- The hearing date is unknown, so the three clear days cannot be counted.
- The tool is asked to tender a document.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the proposed court book, flag a document that is not specifically relevant and any duplicate, and list the schedules that are due three clear days before the hearing. The tool does not decide the tender. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- A court book for tender is limited to documents specifically relevant to that party's case. Duplication is avoided as far as possible.
- The plaintiff's chronology is served at least three clear days before the hearing. The plaintiff reads it before giving evidence, and it is tendered.
- Each party serves a schedule of medical and expert reports at least three clear days before the hearing, and files and serves a schedule of objections to expert evidence in that same time.
- Schedules of damages and of issues are served in the same time. A joint expert report, where concurrent evidence is used, is filed no later than two clear days before the hearing.
Sources
- District Court of NSW, Civil Practice Note 16, standard orders for hearings · 2026-10-23
- Supreme Court of NSW, Practice Note SC GEN 23 · 2026-10-23
Supreme Court Practice Note SC GEN 23, commenced on 3 February 2025, prohibits generative AI from generating evidentiary content, and requires prior leave before it is used to draft an expert report.
SC GEN 23 allows a chronology, an index or a witness list. No District Court generative AI practice note was opened. Practice Note 16 governs the General List.