Letter · Personal Injury & Compensation

Letter of instruction to a vocational assessor

Letter asking a vocational assessor for realistic occupations, hours and sourced earnings, without a diagnosis, an impairment score or a valuation.

Kind
Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
Where it applies
Victoria, Queensland, 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
23 October 2026
Status
Maintained. Checked on 23 October 2026 against the 12 authorities it cites, for Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.
Version
1
Source
Written for this library

When to use it

Use when a plaintiff firm instructs a vocational assessor on work capacity in Victoria, Queensland or New South Wales. The earnings figures go into a loss calculation only after the lawyer puts them in the assumptions.

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

The tool may assemble the letter from the lawyer's job history and the document index, and the lawyer settles the questions before it is sent.

AI may

  • Assemble the index from the documents the lawyer has selected, with one page sequence.
  • Insert the pathway or forum block the lawyer has selected and remove the others.

AI must not

  • Must not state an impairment percentage, a diagnosis, or whether a statutory threshold is met.
  • Must not put health or wage records into a public or consumer tool.
  • Must not draft an affidavit, a witness statement or a statutory declaration.
  • Must not invent an occupation, an earnings figure, or a medical opinion.
  • Must not ask the assessor whether a person was negligent.

The lawyer checks

  • One forum block remains, and the code is enclosed.
  • The questions do not ask for a diagnosis or an impairment score.
  • In a Victorian serious injury application, paragraph 23.58 of PNCLD 1-2026 has been read.
  • Records go by the approved secure channel.

Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.

Authorities

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