ART Expert Disclosure Autofill Agent for Perth Litigation Lawyers: Stop Re-Typing Expert Templates for Every ART Matter
You’re running an Administrative Review Tribunal matter out of Perth — migration, NDIS, veterans’ entitlements, taxation, whatever the docket gave you this week. The expert report is ready. Now you have to wrap it in the ART’s expert disclosure formalities: the expert’s qualifications, the instructions given, the materials considered, the assumptions, the methodology, and — under the Tribunal’s current expectations — disclosure of any generative AI used to prepare any part of the report or its supporting work. Most of that information already exists in your matter file. None of it auto-populates the ART template. The ART Expert Disclosure Autofill Agent closes that gap.
The problem
The ART, which replaced the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in October 2024, publishes practice directions and guidance materials for expert evidence in proceedings before it. Those materials set out what an expert must address in their report and what the instructing party must put before the Tribunal — including, increasingly, disclosure of AI use in the preparation of evidence. The practical problem for a Perth litigation team isn’t understanding the rules; it’s the manual labour of taking the same expert details, instructions, and matter facts and re-transcribing them into the ART’s disclosure structure for every new matter and every new expert. That re-transcription is where errors creep in: a wrong qualification line, a missing assumption, an instruction reference that points to the previous matter, an AI-use field left blank because no one remembered to ask the expert. Each of those is a disclosure failure that can be raised by the Tribunal or the other side.
What the ART Expert Disclosure Autofill Agent does
The agent ingests structured matter data you already hold — expert engagement letter, letter of instruction, schedule of materials, expert CV, and the expert’s responses to a short AI-use questionnaire — and produces a completed ART expert disclosure template aligned to the Tribunal’s published expert evidence requirements. It does not generate substantive expert opinion. It does not invent qualifications, instructions, or methodology. It populates a structured disclosure document from data you have already verified, and it flags fields where source data is missing or ambiguous rather than guessing.
How it works
- Matter intake. You provide the matter folder: engagement letter, letter of instruction, materials schedule, expert CV, and the AI-use questionnaire completed by the expert.
- Field extraction. The agent deterministically extracts each disclosure field — expert identity, qualifications, instructions received, materials considered, assumptions, methodology, AI tools used (if any) and the scope of that use.
- Template population. The extracted fields are mapped into the ART expert disclosure template structure in the order the Tribunal expects.
- Gap report. Any field with no clear source in the matter folder is flagged for human completion rather than left blank or fabricated.
- Pre-lodgement review pack. You receive the populated disclosure document plus a gap report and a provenance log showing which source file each field came from, ready for the instructing solicitor to sign off before filing.
Why this matters in Perth
WA litigation teams running ART matters often do so without a Perth-based ART registry presence on every matter type — many ART proceedings affecting WA clients are run remotely or in shared registries. That distance increases the cost of any disclosure gap discovered late: re-filing, supplementary directions, and explanations to the Tribunal all eat time that a Perth team would prefer to spend on substantive advocacy. Automating the disclosure-template wrap means a Perth practitioner can absorb a sudden expert change or a late report without staying back to re-key the same details into a fresh template. It also creates an auditable trail of what AI use was disclosed for which expert on which matter — useful both for compliance with the Tribunal’s expectations and for the firm’s own AI governance records.
Sources
- Administrative Review Tribunal — Practice Directions and Other Guidance: 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
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The ART Expert Disclosure Autofill Agent is a T3 service in the Exegesis Legal stack. We’re scoping rollout with a small number of Australian litigation teams running ART matters. Join the waitlist and tell us what your current expert-disclosure workflow looks like — that’s what shapes the first release.