---
title: "Response to a request for particulars in a personal injury proceeding"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/response-to-particulars-personal-injury"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-response-to-particulars-personal-injury"
area_id: "A21"
kind: "letter"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A21-T1-R7", "A21-A20260923-2"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23"
---

# Response to a request for particulars in a personal injury proceeding

> A letter answering a request for particulars of a personal injury pleading, with the Victorian bodily-injury items and the different filing rules in Queensland and New South Wales.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/response-to-particulars-personal-injury  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-23

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## 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 8 authorities it cites, for Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.

## When to use it

Use when the other party has asked for particulars of the plaintiff's personal injury pleading. The lawyer settles every answer before the letter is sent. In Queensland a copy of further particulars is filed. In the Supreme Court of Victoria a request is made by letter before an application.

## Used for these tasks

- [Draft pleadings or points of claim from the medical chronology](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/draft-pleadings-or-points-of-claim-from-the-medical-chronology.md)
- [Draft a letter of demand or particulars of injury from the schedule](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/draft-a-letter-of-demand-or-particulars-of-injury-from-the-schedule.md)

## How AI may be used

The tool may line each request up against the pleading and the chronology, and the lawyer settles every answer before the letter is sent or a copy is filed.

**AI may:**

- Set the requests out in the same order and number them against the pleading paragraph
- Draft an answer only from the pleading, the particulars already served, the chronology or the client's written instructions
- Mark an answer that is not yet known as "[NOT PRESENTLY KNOWN, WITH A STATEMENT OF WHAT IS BEING DONE TO FIND IT]" for the lawyer to settle
- In Victoria, check a bodily-injury pleading against the four items in r 13.10(4) and list any item that is missing

**AI must not:**

- Must not invent a date, an employer, a wage, a symptom or a document
- Must not refuse a request, or make an admission, unless the lawyer has directed that answer
- Must not file the Queensland copy until the lawyer has settled every answer
- Must not say that New South Wales requires a letter before an application. No letter-first rule was opened in the New South Wales rules
- Must not treat County Court r 13.11 as read. Only County Court r 13.10 was opened

**The lawyer checks:**

- Each answer is consistent with the pleading and with the evidence the plaintiff will call
- Victoria, Supreme Court and County Court r 13.10(4): a bodily-injury pleading states the earnings lost, with dates and amounts; the loss of earning capacity; the date of birth; and each employer from the day 12 months before the injury, with the start, the duration and the total net amount after tax
- Victoria r 13.10(6): particulars of debt, damages or expenses which exceed three folios are in a separate document referred to in the pleading
- Supreme Court r 13.11(3): the Court may refuse an order if the party did not first apply by letter. The Court shall not order particulars before the defence unless the order is necessary or desirable to enable the defendant to plead, or for some other special reason
- Queensland: further particulars may be given by correspondence, and the party giving them must file a copy (r 160(2) and (3)). An application for particulars does not extend the time for pleading (r 161(3)). Particulars given under an order must repeat the relevant part of the order so they are self-explanatory (r 161(4))
- Queensland r 157(c) refers to r 150. Rule 150 was not opened
- New South Wales r 15.1 requires the particulars necessary to enable the opposite party to identify the case. Rule 15.10 lets the court order that particulars be filed. No rule requiring a letter before that application was opened
- Health information in the answers stays in the firm's file. The lawyer checks confidentiality before the letter is sent and before any copy is filed

## Authorities

- [Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2025 (Vic) r 13.10 (particulars, including the bodily-injury items in r 13.10(4) and the three-folio document in r 13.10(6))](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/sccpr2025433/s13.10.html)
- [Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2025 (Vic) r 13.11 (the Court may refuse an order for particulars if the applicant did not first apply by letter)](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/sccpr2025433/s13.11.html)
- [County Court Civil Procedure Rules 2018 (Vic) r 13.10 (the same bodily-injury items and the three-folio document)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/cccpr2018380/s13.10.html)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld) r 157 (particulars to define the issues, prevent surprise, enable the opposite party to plead, and support a matter pleaded under r 150)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_reg/ucpr1999305/s157.html)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld) r 160 (further particulars may be given by correspondence, and a copy must be filed)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_reg/ucpr1999305/s160.html)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld) r 161 (an application does not extend the time for pleading; ordered particulars repeat the relevant part of the order)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_reg/ucpr1999305/s161.html)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 15.1 (particulars necessary to enable the opposite party to identify the case to be met)](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/ucpr2005305/s15.1.html)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 15.10 (the court may order particulars, a statement of the nature of the case, or damages particulars, to be filed)](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/ucpr2005305/s15.10.html)

## Full text and drafting notes

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