Checklist · Criminal Law
Queensland Supreme Court criminal expert report: generative AI items
Checklist for an expert report in a Queensland Supreme Court criminal proceeding under amended Practice Direction 14 of 2024. It records the generative-AI items in paragraph 16(l), the expert's duty, and the service times. It does not draft the opinion.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Australia, Queensland
- 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 authority it cites, for Australia and Queensland.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when an expert report may be relied on at a trial or pre-trial hearing in the Supreme Court of Queensland, for a criminal proceeding other than a sentence, where the indictment was presented on or after 15 July 2024.
Used for these tasks
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 tick which paragraph 16 items appear in a report the lawyer supplies. The lawyer decides whether the disclosure meets the practice direction.
AI may
- List each paragraph 16 item and note the page of the draft report that appears to address it
- Record the name of any generative-AI program the report itself names
- Flag a report that mentions a model and has no annexure of prompts or outputs
AI must not
- Must not draft or rewrite the expert's opinion
- Must not treat a missing annexure as cured by a summary of the prompts
- Must not apply this direction to a sentence proceeding, or to an indictment presented before 15 July 2024
The lawyer checks
- The proceeding is in the Supreme Court of Queensland and is not a sentence
- The indictment was presented on or after 15 July 2024
- Paragraph 16(l) is read on the signed PDF. The scrape numbers two items as (ii)
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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