Sort NSW injury records into the pathway the lawyer names
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the medical, wage and correspondence records, extract dated facts into the pathway the lawyer names, whether workers compensation, a motor accident claim or a Civil Liability Act damages claim, and keep a source cite on each fact.
- What the lawyer must review
- Confirm the pathway first. Section 3B takes some claims outside the Civil Liability Act
- Verify each extracted fact against the source record
- Keep health and wage records in a firm-controlled tool. A leak may be notifiable
Rules that apply
The document starts from the task name. Change it if this piece of work is different.
The work product
Forum. NSW workers compensation, motor accidents, or a claim under the Civil Liability Act 2002
Produce. A sourced fact list arranged under the pathway the lawyer has named.
Have ready. The pathway named by the lawyer; Medical, wage and correspondence records selected by the lawyer.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: The lawyer names a public liability claim. The tool files the fall, the photographs and the time off work under that claim. It does not also build a workers compensation weekly-payments calculation.
Stop and hand it back when
- The lawyer has not named the pathway.
- A document the fact list relies on is missing or illegible.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the medical, wage and correspondence records, extract dated facts into the pathway the lawyer names, whether workers compensation, a motor accident claim or a Civil Liability Act damages claim, and keep a source cite on each fact. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- If the lawyer names workers compensation, sort facts against weekly payments, treatment expenses, permanent impairment and any work injury damages question.
- If the lawyer names a motor accident on or after 1 December 2017, keep statutory benefits separate from a damages claim. Non-economic loss turns on impairment greater than 10 per cent.
- If the lawyer names a Civil Liability Act claim, do not use that Act for a matter section 3B excludes, including work injury damages and dust-disease damages.
- Every fact keeps the document, page and date it came from. Gaps are listed, not filled.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom of information request for a patient's own health records | Letter | AI use Yellow | A written request under section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic) for a patient's own health records held by a public sector agency, sent after an informal release request. |
| Right to information application for a patient's own hospital records | Letter | AI use Yellow | A Queensland application for a patient's own public-hospital health records, using the hospital's administrative scheme first and a Right to Information application if a formal application is required. |
| Authority for an employer to release wage and incident records | Form | AI use Yellow | Signed authority for one employer to release incident, wage, leave and role records for a stated period, with a short covering letter. |
| Letter to an employer asking for incident documents, a footage hold and wage records | Letter | AI use Yellow | A letter, with the worker's authority, asking an employer for time and wage records and for the incident report, and asking the employer to keep any footage of the incident. |
| Access application for health information under the GIPA Act | Letter | AI use Yellow | An access application under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW) for health information, used when the health service's own health-records process does not cover the request. |
| Letter asking that footage, photographs and physical evidence be preserved | Letter | AI use Yellow | A letter asking the person who holds footage or a physical item to stop it being overwritten, deleted or repaired, and to say whether it still exists. |
| Client authority and records request pack for a personal injury claim | Form | AI use Yellow | Signed client authority plus a schedule of record requests for a personal injury claim (treating doctors, hospitals, ambulance, employer and payroll, Medicare and Centrelink, insurers), with a tracking table so gaps in the record set are visible early. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
- Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) section 3B · 2026-10-23
- SIRA: Part 4 of the Motor Accident Guidelines: Claims · 2026-10-23
- Personal Injury Commission: Procedural Direction PIC13 · 2026-10-23
Procedural Direction PIC13 allows a generative AI tool to prepare chronologies and schedules from material that is allowed into the tool. It does not allow the tool to generate the content of a person's evidence.
Health and wage records stay in a firm-controlled tool. Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules rule 9 and Australian Privacy Principle 11 apply, and a breach may be notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).