Letter · Personal Injury & Compensation

Request for an urgent hearing where the plaintiff is gravely ill

A letter asking for an urgent hearing where the plaintiff is gravely ill. The New South Wales variant is addressed to the Dust Diseases Tribunal, and Victoria and Queensland ask the registry for the earliest hearing the court will give.

Kind
Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
Where it applies
New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland
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 6 authorities it cites, for New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
Version
1
Source
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When to use it

Use when an opened specialist report says the plaintiff is gravely ill and the evidence may need to be taken soon. In New South Wales, use it for a dust-disease claim in the Dust Diseases Tribunal. In Victoria and Queensland, use it only to ask for the earliest listing, after the lawyer has identified the court.

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 prepare the request from an opened specialist report and the court's published page; the lawyer identifies the court, checks the current practice note, and does not let the tool invent a medical opinion.

AI may

  • Insert the prognosis in the words of a specialist report the lawyer has opened, with the report's date and the author's specialty
  • Ask the Dust Diseases Tribunal, in a New South Wales dust claim, to consider an urgent bedside hearing and name the published registry contact
  • Ask a Victorian or Queensland registry for the earliest hearing the court will give, without stating a procedure that has not been read

AI must not

  • Must not invent a prognosis, a life expectancy, or any medical opinion
  • Must not set out the internal steps of a Dust Diseases Tribunal advice to practitioners that has not been opened
  • Must not state a Victorian urgent-listing test from Practice Note SC CL 3, or a Queensland expedition rule
  • Must not put the medical report into a tool that the firm has not approved

The lawyer checks

  • The report relied on is a specialist report already on the file, and the words used in the letter are the report's words
  • New South Wales: the claim is within the Tribunal's exclusive dust-disease jurisdiction, and the lawyer has read Advice to Practitioners No 1 of 2019 before asking for a bedside hearing
  • Victoria: the proceeding belongs in the Dust Diseases List or another list the lawyer has identified, and the lawyer has read the current text of Practice Note SC CL 3 before sending the letter
  • Queensland: the injury is a dust-related condition, so the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 does not apply to it, and the lawyer has identified the court and its current urgent-listing practice
  • The letter is copied only to parties already on the record, or to persons the lawyer has decided should have notice
  • Health information stays in a firm-approved tool. The lawyer applies Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules rule 9 and Australian Privacy Principle 11, and considers whether any breach is notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The lawyer also checks the court's current practice note on generative artificial intelligence before any generated text is filed

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

Authorities

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