---
title: "Build an NSW dust-disease chronology for the Dust Diseases Tribunal"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-an-occupational-disease-or-dust-disease-file-chronology-and-issu/new-south-wales"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-T1-R12-NSW"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "red"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["NSW"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Build an NSW dust-disease chronology for the Dust Diseases Tribunal

> From the employment, exposure and medical records, prepare a chronology and an issues list with document cites, marking a malignant or non-malignant asbestos category only where the lawyer has named the diagnosis.…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-an-occupational-disease-or-dust-disease-file-chronology-and-issu/new-south-wales  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Red: Lawyer writes; AI may check, clarify or collect data |
| How AI is used | From the employment, exposure and medical records, prepare a chronology and an issues list with document cites, marking a malignant or non-malignant asbestos category only where the lawyer has named the diagnosis. Do not draft material to be sworn. |
| What the lawyer must review | Check whether the claim is malignant. That category uses the shorter timetable You prepare any evidence for urgent case management of a gravely ill plaintiff Check section 3B before applying the Civil Liability Act to dust-disease damages Check whether a 1942 Act compensation path also exists before you advise |
| Written for | New South Wales |
| Applies to | [Prepare an occupational-disease or dust-disease file chronology and issues list](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-an-occupational-disease-or-dust-disease-file-chronology-and-issu.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The lawyer owns anything lodged in the Dust Diseases Tribunal. The tool organises the chronology and the issues.

- What the AI does: From the employment, exposure and medical records, prepare a chronology and an issues list with document cites, marking a malignant or non-malignant asbestos category only where the lawyer has named the diagnosis. Do not draft material to be sworn.
- What the lawyer does: Settle the diagnosis category, the defendants and any document that is lodged.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in this practice area
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. The Dust Diseases Tribunal Regulation 2019 applies the asbestos claims resolution process. Mesothelioma or carcinoma is the malignant category and uses the shorter timetable. Another asbestos disease is non-malignant.
2. Where the person is gravely ill, the Tribunal page says an application to leave the usual process is made by notice of motion with an affidavit and medical evidence, and a bedside hearing can be arranged. The tool does not draft that evidence.
3. Section 3B(1)(b) of the Civil Liability Act 2002 excludes dust-disease damages proceedings except sections 15A and 15B and section 18(1) in its application to loss of the kind in section 18(1)(c).
4. List each employer, exposure period and diagnosis with the document cite. Do not invent a trust, a defendant or an exposure date.

## Notes

- The Tribunal page was last updated on 8 July 2026. The business-day calendars for the claims resolution process are published separately. The timetable lengths were not copied into this version.
- Practice Note SC Gen 23 allows a chronology and prohibits generative AI from generating the content of an affidavit. The same limit is the reason this task is Red.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales

**Deliverable**: A sourced chronology and issues list for the lawyer. Nothing in it is lodged as evidence.

**Inputs**

- Employment and exposure records selected by the lawyer
- Medical records and the diagnosis the lawyer has named
- The list of proposed defendants

**Example**: Illustrative example: The lawyer names mesothelioma. The issues list marks the claim as malignant and lists three employers with the years on the wage records. It does not draft the notice of motion for an urgent hearing.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The diagnosis has not been named, so the malignant and non-malignant timetables cannot be told apart.
- The output would be lodged as the plaintiff's evidence.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [Dust Diseases Tribunal: The claims resolution process](https://dustdiseasestribunal.nsw.gov.au/the-claims-resolution-process.html) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) section 3B](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/cla2002161/s3b.html) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Supreme Court of NSW: Practice Note SC Gen 23](https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/documents/Practice-and-Procedure/Practice-Notes/general/current/PN_SC_Gen_23.pdf) (checked 2026-10-23)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Authorities to trace a dust client's employment and the former employers' insurers](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/authorities-trace-dust-employment-insurers.md) | Letter | Yellow | Authorities the client signs so the firm can ask former employers, and the New South Wales, Victorian and Queensland compensation bodies, for employment history and the insurer or claim file. |
| [Letter to a former employer: employment history and the workers compensation insurer](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-former-employer-dust-history-insurer.md) | Letter | Yellow | A letter asking a former employer for the client's dates, job, sites, dust products, and the workers compensation insurer or self-insurer for those years. |
| [Product identification letter for an asbestos or engineered-stone claim](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/product-identification-letter-asbestos-stone.md) | Letter | Yellow | A letter asking an employer, occupier, supplier or manufacturer to identify an asbestos product or an engineered-stone benchtop, panel or slab from its records. |
| [Outline notice of motion to take a gravely ill plaintiff's evidence early](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/notice-early-evidence-gravely-ill-plaintiff.md) | Court document | Red | An outline notice of motion in the Dust Diseases Tribunal to remove an asbestos claim from the usual claims process and to take the plaintiff's evidence under section 24. |
| [Dust Diseases Care eligibility checklist for a statutory application](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/nsw-dust-diseases-care-eligibility-checklist.md) | Checklist | Yellow | Checklist for a Dust Diseases Care eligibility screen: a covered diagnosis, exposure while employed in New South Wales, and a resulting disability.… |
| [Request to preserve employment, product and insurance records in a dust claim](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-preserve-dust-employment-product-records.md) | Letter | Yellow | A request that an employer, occupier, supplier or manufacturer keep employment, site, product and workers compensation insurance records while a dust claim is investigated. |
| [Treatment chronology from health records](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/treatment-chronology.md) | Other | Yellow | A page-cited chronology of treatment, complaints and findings drawn from health records, with a verification log. It is a working document, not the witness's evidence. |
| [Request for an urgent hearing where the plaintiff is gravely ill](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/urgent-hearing-gravely-ill-plaintiff.md) | Letter | Yellow | A letter asking for an urgent hearing where the plaintiff is gravely ill. The New South Wales variant is addressed to the Dust Diseases Tribunal, and Victoria and Queensland ask the registry for the… |
| [Dust Diseases Care application (icare): care, support or lung screening](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/form-nsw-icare-dust-diseases-care-application.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to icare's Dust Diseases Care application for care and support or lung screening, including the portal groups and the declaration the applicant checks before submitting. |
| [Dust Diseases Tribunal: lodging an asbestos-related claim](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/form-nsw-ddt-asbestos-claim.md) | Form | Red | Link to the Dust Diseases Tribunal's steps for an asbestos-related claim: UCPR Form 3A or 3B, then the Tribunal's statement of particulars with a Form 1 cover. |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*