---
title: "Check a client's draft NSW claim description before lodgement"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/review-a-client-s-ai-drafted-claim-description/new-south-wales"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-B6-4-NSW"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["NSW"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Check a client's draft NSW claim description before lodgement

> Compare the client's draft description of the injury with the medical and wage records and list statements that the records do not support. Do not rewrite the client's account.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/review-a-client-s-ai-drafted-claim-description/new-south-wales  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

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## 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 | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | Compare the client's draft description of the injury with the medical and wage records and list statements that the records do not support. Do not rewrite the client's account. |
| What the lawyer must review | The client owns the description that is lodged. Change only what the client confirms Check whether the form asks the client to declare the contents Do not put the draft into a public tool. Health information stays firm-controlled A breach of those records may be notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) |
| Written for | New South Wales |
| Applies to | [Review a client's AI-drafted claim description](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/review-a-client-s-ai-drafted-claim-description.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The lawyer checks the client's own description before an NSW claim form is lodged.

- What the AI does: Compare the client's draft description of the injury with the medical and wage records and list statements that the records do not support. Do not rewrite the client's account.
- What the lawyer does: Decide what the client can adopt, and settle the words that are 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. List only conflicts with a record. Do not add a mechanism, a body part or a period off work that the client has not stated.
2. On a workers compensation claim, a relevant-conduct psychological injury is described in section 3A of the claim form, and the insurer then has 42 days to decide.
3. On a motor accident claim made by phone, guideline 4.24 says notice is not given until the completed pre-filled form is returned. Do not treat every draft description as notice.
4. If the description may later be the client's evidence in court or in the Commission, generative AI must not generate its content.

## Notes

- Practice Note SC Gen 23, paragraphs 10 to 13, and Procedural Direction PIC13, paragraphs 12 to 15, deal with evidence. A working comparison is allowed. A rewrite of the client's account is not.
- Health information stays 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).

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: NSW workers compensation or motor accident claim, before lodgement

**Deliverable**: A list of statements in the client's draft that the records do not support, for the lawyer to take up with the client.

**Inputs**

- The client's draft description
- Medical and wage records selected by the lawyer
- The form that will be lodged

**Example**: Illustrative example: The draft says the injury was a fall from a ladder. The first hospital note says the person slipped on a wet floor. The list records both accounts. It does not pick one.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The client has not seen the conflicts.
- The draft would be lodged as the client's evidence and has been rewritten by the tool.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [SIRA: Weekly payments](https://www.sira.nsw.gov.au/workers-compensation/what-you-can-claim/weekly-payments) (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)
- [Personal Injury Commission: Procedural Direction PIC13](https://www.pi.nsw.gov.au/resources/procedural-directions/procedural-direction-pic13-use-of-generative-artificial-intelligence) (checked 2026-10-23)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Injury intake questionnaire](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/injury-intake-questionnaire.md) | Form | Yellow | Questions for the first contact with an injured person: who is enquiring, age and capacity, how the injury happened, which schemes might apply, treatment and work, and the documents to keep.… |

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.*