Court and tribunal reports Where the duty is to the court.
Four report types go before a court or tribunal, or are prepared for negotiations that may: litigation expert, compulsory acquisition, easement and crane oversail. Valufield keeps AI drafting off until the court’s leave is recorded on the job.
Four types, one paramount duty.
In court work the expert’s paramount duty is to the court or tribunal, not the client who pays.
Litigation (expert report)
A wrapper, not a valuation template. It sits on top of the template that fits the question and adds the court code, the document kind and the common court parts.
Compulsory acquisition
It assesses compensation when an authority acquires land under the Just Terms Act: market value, then special value, severance, disturbance and the other heads.
Easement
It assesses compensation to the owner of land burdened by a private easement, created by agreement, by order, or under the encroachment legislation.
Crane oversail licence
It sets a fee for a temporary licence for a crane jib to swing over a neighbour’s land, for a future term or for oversail that has already happened.
Forum first, then the evidence.
For all four types, AI drafting stays off until the court’s leave is recorded on the job.
Pick the forum
The litigation wrapper holds the code for the Supreme, District and Land and Environment Courts, and for NCAT. Family matters use the family law template.
Common court parts
These cover questions and answers, documents relied on, qualifications, facts and assumptions, and a statement on generative AI, with court versions of the conditions.
Inputs from evidence
The easement and crane templates carry no rates or figures over from past jobs. Each job sets its own inputs from the evidence it cites.
The court’s rules, then the sums.
AI waits for leave
Court and tribunal types keep AI drafting off until leave is recorded. Even then AI only suggests descriptive wording that the valuer accepts, edits or discards.
Declaration and AI statement
The checker reads for the acknowledgement in the form the code needs and a generative AI statement. It blocks a statement that is untrue or claims leave without the leave details.
Type-specific rules
Acquisition checks each compensation head and that the total adds up. Easement checks area as length times width. Crane checks the fee sums and that evidence has a source.
Review and release
A second valuer peer-reviews a recorded file. Release is a separate gated step and never emails the report.
Straight answers.
Can AI help draft a court report?
Not until the court’s leave is recorded on the job. Even then it only suggests descriptive wording. The value, rates, adjustments, sales evidence and declarations are refused to it.
Easement or compulsory acquisition?
The easement template is for private easements. Where a public authority acquires the easement under statute, it is a compulsory acquisition and that template applies.
Do these meet every court’s rules?
They are drafts for the principal’s review, NSW first. The valuer stays responsible for each forum’s practice notes and for professional standards.
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