--- title: "Request for an urgent hearing where the plaintiff is gravely ill" url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/urgent-hearing-gravely-ill-plaintiff" type: "precedent" site: "AI Law Framework" id: "a21-urgent-hearing-gravely-ill-plaintiff" area_id: "A21" kind: "letter" ai_level: "yellow" version: 1 task_ids: ["A21-DD20261023-5", "A21-T1-R12", "A21-T1-R1"] law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23" --- # 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… Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/urgent-hearing-gravely-ill-plaintiff Law stated as at: 2026-10-23 Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt 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. ## 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: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland - 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 6 authorities it cites, for New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. ## 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 - [Assemble the material for an urgent hearing while the plaintiff is gravely ill](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/assemble-the-material-for-an-urgent-hearing-while-the-plaintiff-is-grave.md) - [Prepare an occupational-disease or dust-disease file chronology and issues list](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-an-occupational-disease-or-dust-disease-file-chronology-and-issu.md) - [Calculate limitation and pre-action notice deadlines from the injury facts](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/calculate-limitation-and-pre-action-notice-deadlines-from-the-injury-fac.md) ## 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 ## Authorities - [Dust Diseases Tribunal of NSW, Urgent claims for the gravely ill (bedside hearing, Claims Resolution Process, video courtroom, out-of-hours statement of claim)](https://dustdiseasestribunal.nsw.gov.au/urgent-claims-for-the-gravely-ill.html) - [Dust Diseases Tribunal of NSW, Case types and how they are prioritised (exclusive jurisdiction; the Limitation Act 1969 does not prevent dust-related proceedings; shortest life expectancy)](https://dustdiseasestribunal.nsw.gov.au/how-the-tribunal-works0/case-types-and-how-they-are-prioritised.html) - [Dust Diseases Tribunal of NSW, Practice notes (index, including Advice to Practitioners No 1 of 2019 and No 2 of 2013)](https://dustdiseasestribunal.nsw.gov.au/practice-and-procedures/practice-notes.html) - [Supreme Court of Victoria, Dust Diseases List (Practice Note SC CL 3; list email; ordinary directions timetable)](https://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/areas/common-law-division/specialist-lists/dust-diseases) - [Supreme Court of Victoria, Practice Note SC CL 3 Personal Injuries Litigation (purpose: Personal Injuries List, Institutional Liability List and Dust Diseases List)](https://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/areas/legal-resources/practice-notes/sc-cl-3-personal-injuries-litigation) - [Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 (Qld) s 6(3)(b) (the Act does not apply to personal injury that is a dust-related condition)](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/pipa2002314/s6.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/urgent-hearing-gravely-ill-plaintiff 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.*