---
title: "Family conference before an inquest: agenda"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/coronial-inquests/family-conference-before-inquest"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a61-family-conference-before-inquest"
area_id: "A61"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A61-V20261018-3", "A61-V20261018-4"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# 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.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/coronial-inquests/family-conference-before-inquest  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

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

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Coronial Inquests](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/coronial-inquests.md)
- Jurisdictions: New South Wales
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for New South Wales.

## 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](https://ailawframework.com/practice/coronial-inquests/prepare-the-family-s-request-for-an-inquest-or-for-review-of-a-decision.md)
- [Prepare an application for leave to appear at an inquest](https://ailawframework.com/practice/coronial-inquests/prepare-an-application-for-leave-to-appear-at-an-inquest.md)

## 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

## Authorities

- [Coroners Act 2009 (NSW) s 27 (when an inquest is required) and s 26 (reasons for dispensing with an inquest)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca2009120/s27.html)
- [Coroners Act 2009 (NSW) s 61 (a witness must object before any certificate is available) and s 74 (closed court and non-publication)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca2009120/s61.html)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/coronial-inquests/family-conference-before-inquest and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

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