---
title: "Agenda for a conference of experts"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/expert-conference-agenda"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-expert-conference-agenda"
area_id: "A21"
kind: "letter"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A21-T1-R8", "A21-P20260916-3"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23"
---

# Agenda for a conference of experts

> Note to experts after a direction to confer, setting the arrangements and the issues, and stating the joint-report rule in Victoria, Queensland or New South Wales.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/expert-conference-agenda  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-23

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

## Key facts

- Kind: Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Practice area: [Personal Injury & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation.md)
- Jurisdictions: Victoria, Queensland, 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: 2026-10-23
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-23 against the 7 authorities it cites, for Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.

## When to use it

Use after a court has directed a conference of experts in a plaintiff claim in Victoria, Queensland or New South Wales. The experts write the joint report. If the agenda itself must be filed, the lawyer settles the filed copy.

## Used for these tasks

- [Draft medico-legal instructions and review the draft report](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/draft-medico-legal-instructions-and-review-the-draft-report.md)
- [Check an expert report’s assumptions and AI disclosure](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/check-an-expert-report-s-assumptions-and-ai-disclosure.md)

## How AI may be used

The tool may place issue headings from the direction and the served reports into the table, and the lawyer settles the note before it is sent.

**AI may:**

- Assemble the letter from the lawyer's questions, the assumption list and the document index.
- Insert the forum block the lawyer has selected and remove the other forum blocks.
- Check that every enclosed document is named in the index and that page numbers run in one sequence.
- List the served reports and their dates in the arrangements section from the brief index.

**AI must not:**

- Must not suggest, draft or strengthen the expert's opinion, diagnosis, impairment score or conclusion.
- Must not put health, wage or benefit records into a public or consumer tool, or into a tool that may train on them.
- Must not choose the forum's code or artificial intelligence rule from memory. The lawyer confirms the current instrument.
- Must not draft an affidavit, a witness statement or a statutory declaration.
- Must not draft the joint report, propose points of agreement, or comment on which expert is right.
- Must not produce the text of an agenda that is to be filed. The lawyer writes that copy.

**The lawyer checks:**

- The direction is identified, and one court block remains.
- The issue list matches the direction or the parties' written agreement, and adds nothing.
- The note tells the experts not to withhold agreement, and it does not suggest an outcome.
- The other side is copied, as the arrangements require.

## Authorities

- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 31.24 (conference between expert witnesses)](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/ucpr2005305/s31.24.html)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 31.26 (joint report)](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/ucpr2005305/s31.26.html)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Schedule 7 (expert witness code of conduct), current version from 13 March 2026](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2005-0418#sch.7)
- [Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2025 (Vic) r 44.06 (conference between experts)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/sccpr2025433/s44.06.html)
- [County Court Civil Procedure Rules 2018 (Vic) r 44.06 (conference between experts)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/cccpr2018380/s44.06.html)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld) r 428 (experts' conferences and joint reports)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_reg/ucpr1999305/s428.html)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld) Schedule 1C (code of conduct for experts)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_reg/ucpr1999305/sch1c.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/personal-injury-and-compensation/expert-conference-agenda 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.*