ART Expert Disclosure Autofill Agent for Brisbane Litigation Lawyers: Get the ART Expert Disclosure Form Right the First Time
You’ve got an Administrative Review Tribunal matter listed for hearing, an expert report due, and a disclosure template sitting open on a second monitor. The matter management system already holds the expert’s name, qualifications, instructions, and the documents they relied on — but you’re rekeying every field into the ART’s expert evidence template, and the AI-use disclosure section keeps tripping over what the expert did and didn’t run through a model. The ART Expert Disclosure Autofill Agent takes the data you already have and produces a draft disclosure form that maps cleanly to the Tribunal’s practice direction requirements.
The problem
The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART), which replaced the AAT on 14 October 2024, publishes practice directions and guidance for professionals appearing before it, including expectations for expert evidence. Where an expert relies on a generative AI tool to prepare any part of their report — to summarise material, draft sections, or analyse data — that use needs to be disclosed accurately. Practitioners and instructing solicitors carry the responsibility for the form and content of expert disclosures filed in the Tribunal.
The friction is mechanical, not legal. You already know what the expert did. The data lives in your matter management system, the expert’s engagement letter, and the report itself. The disclosure template asks for it in a specific structure. Manually transcribing between the two — especially the AI-use section, which has to be precise about which tool, what task, what verification — is where errors and omissions creep in under filing pressure.
If the disclosure understates AI use, or misses a category the practice direction calls out, the consequence isn’t just an embarrassing correction. It’s a potential admissibility argument from the other side and a credibility hit to the expert.
What the ART Expert Disclosure Autofill Agent does
The agent reads structured matter data — expert details, instructions provided, materials relied on, AI tools used and for what task — and auto-completes the ART expert disclosure template. It produces a draft form, not a filed form: every field is attributed to its source so you can verify before signing.
The deliverable is a populated ART-format expert disclosure document, ready for review by the instructing solicitor and the expert, with a side-by-side source trace showing which matter-system field or document populated each section.
How it works
- Connect matter data. Point the agent at the matter file: expert engagement letter, instructions, report draft, and any AI-use questionnaire the expert returned.
- Map to the ART template. The agent maps each known field to the corresponding section of the current ART expert disclosure template, including the AI-use disclosure section.
- Flag gaps. Where a required field has no source in the matter data — common for AI-use specifics the expert hasn’t yet confirmed — the agent flags the gap rather than guessing.
- Produce the draft form. A populated draft is generated with inline citations back to the source document and field for every populated section.
- Review and sign. The instructing solicitor and expert review, confirm, and finalise. Nothing is filed by the agent.
Why this matters in Brisbane
Brisbane litigation teams running ART matters — migration, NDIS, social security, veterans’ entitlements, FOI — file expert disclosures into a tribunal whose practice directions were issued and updated under the new ART framework after the AAT transition. The AI-use disclosure expectation is new enough that there isn’t a settled local practice yet, which is precisely when getting the mechanical part right matters most. Queensland-based instructing solicitors carry the same obligation as their counterparts in any other registry, and the Tribunal’s practice directions apply nationally — but the cost of a botched disclosure (re-listing, expert credibility, client communication) lands locally on the team running the file.
The agent is built to remove the rekeying step and the gap-spotting step, so the review by the lawyer and the expert is the substantive review it should be, not a transcription audit.
Sources
- Administrative Review Tribunal — Practice directions and other guidance for professionals and practitioners: https://www.art.gov.au/help-and-resources/professionals-and-practitioners/practice-directions-and-other-guidance
- Law Council of Australia — Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules: https://lawcouncil.au/policy-agenda/regulation-of-the-profession-and-ethics/australian-solicitors-conduct-rules
- RuleCheck by Exegesis (open-source citation verifier): https://github.com/andrefabre/rulecheck
Join the waitlist
The ART Expert Disclosure Autofill Agent is in development. We’re scoping pricing structure (per-matter, per-user, or firm-licence) based on demand from Brisbane teams running ART work. Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know when access opens.