Checklist · Coronial Inquests
Family conference before an inquest: agenda
An agenda for a conference with a family before a NSW inquest: leave to appear, the issues list, what the family will and will not hear, and who speaks to the coroner.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for New South Wales.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use before the first directions hearing or the start of a NSW inquest, when the firm acts for a family. It is an internal agenda. It is not a record of what a family member says happened.
Used for these tasks
- Prepare the family's request for an inquest or for review of a decision not to hold one
- Prepare an application for leave to appear at an inquest
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may prepare the agenda from the issues list and the brief index; the lawyer conducts the conference and does not have a tool record the family's account.
AI may
- Turn the coroner's issues list into agenda headings
- List the hearing dates and the names of counsel assisting from the directions
AI must not
- Must not take, summarise or outline any family member's account of the death
- Must not draft a statement
- Must not decide who has leave to appear
The lawyer checks
- The conference does not become a proofing of a witness who may later object under s 61
- Each family member knows who on the file they may speak to, and that a tool is not taking their account
- Leave, non-publication and whether anyone in the family will be a witness are decided by the lawyer and recorded as decisions, not as a narrative
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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More in Coronial Inquests
- Coronial matter register and deadline list (NSW)
- Objection to a post mortem examination (Coroners Court of NSW): the senior next of kin's letter, the 48-hour notice and the Supreme Court application
- Request for an inquest into a death (Coroners Court of Victoria Form 26)
- Asking for an inquest after a coroner has dispensed with one (NSW)
- Queensland internal autopsy: record of a family's concerns
- Application for leave to appear at an inquest: letter to the coroner (NSW, sufficient interest)
- Application for leave to appear as an interested party (Coroners Court Form 31)
- Letter asking a NSW coroner for reasons for dispensing with an inquest
- Requesting a Queensland inquest: pathway, dates and pre-inquest conference
- Application to set aside a finding (Coroners Court Form 43)
- Queensland coronial recommendations: response tracking register
- Self-incrimination objection and certificate at a NSW inquest: steps for the lawyer
- Closing submissions on findings and recommendations at an inquest: structure and checklist (NSW)
- Application for access to coronial documents or an inquest transcript (Coroners Court Form 45)
- Non-publication or closed-court order at a NSW inquest: structure (s 74)
- Organisation's response to coronial recommendations: letter and implementation register
- Western Australian coronial investigation: status register
- Notice of application for a suppression order (Coroners Court Form 42B)
- Issues-to-witness matrix for an inquest
- Western Australia: senior next of kin autopsy and information rights
- Request for consideration of concerns (Coroners Court of Victoria)
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