---
title: "Supplementary questions after an expert report"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/supplementary-questions-after-an-expert-report"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-supplementary-questions-after-an-expert-report"
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"
---

# Supplementary questions after an expert report

> Short letter sending further documents and asking whether the expert's opinion on a material matter has changed, with the supplementary-report duty for each state.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/supplementary-questions-after-an-expert-report  
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 plaintiff firm has a report and then receives documents the expert has not seen. Do not use it to invite a particular change in the opinion.

## 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 assemble the letter from the new document index and the date of the earlier report, and the lawyer checks that it does not suggest a change of opinion.

**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.

**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 suggest how the opinion should change, or draft the supplementary report.

**The lawyer checks:**

- The further documents are listed, and the assumptions are unchanged or the change is stated.
- One forum block remains, and it matches the original instructions.
- The letter does not hint at the desired opinion.
- The documents go by the approved secure channel.

## Authorities

- [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)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 31.27 (experts' reports, including generative artificial intelligence)](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/ucpr2005305/s31.27.html)
- [Personal Injury Commission Procedural Direction PIC4, Expert Witness Evidence](https://www.pi.nsw.gov.au/resources/procedural-directions/procedural-direction-pic4-expert-witness-evidence)
- [Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2025 (Vic) r 44.01 (the code is Form 44A)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/sccpr2025433/s44.01.html)
- [Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2025 (Vic) r 44.03 (report of expert)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/sccpr2025433/s44.03.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)
- [Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld) r 429H (requirements for report)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_reg/ucpr1999305/s429h.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/supplementary-questions-after-an-expert-report 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.*