Use Mary for personal injury matters

Organise treatment records, compare accounts and prepare a sourced factual outline. Keep reported symptoms, recorded observations and professional opinions distinct.

Use processed source documents. The examples below concern a hypothetical event on 1 March 2026; replace the date and filenames with your own.

Build a treatment chronology

Open Mary tools → Create chronologies and start with:

Create a chronology of the treatment following the event on 1 March 2026.

For a wider history, add the period and details you need:

Cover 1 December 2025 to 31 August 2026. Include reported symptoms, recorded observations and treatment, with dates and sources. Identify uncertainty about when a described event occurred.

Separate three kinds of date when checking the result:

A later report may describe an earlier consultation or event. Preserve these distinctions when editing the chronology.

Compare records and later accounts

Use Ask Mary for a short comparison:

How does the claimant's account compare with the treatment notes?

Then narrow it to named sources and dates:

Compare the account of 1–7 March 2026 in Claimant-statement.pdf with Treatment-notes.pdf for the same period. Identify agreement, differences and missing information, with sources.

Check that an apparent difference concerns the same date, symptom or activity. Silence in one record does not prove that a symptom or event was absent. Distinguish the person's report from a clinician's observation. The sequence of events alone does not establish diagnosis, medical causation, liability or the value of a claim.

Check medication and functional history

Use Ask Mary to examine a specific part of the treatment record:

What medications were prescribed or administered during [period], by whom, and what changes are recorded? Include the recorded dose or frequency where available. Cite the relevant records.

What functional or work restrictions are recorded for [person] during [period]? Distinguish the person's reports from treating practitioners' opinions and identify each source.

To compare the position before and after the event, name both periods and ask about the same activities. Check who recorded each restriction and when. These questions organise the recorded evidence; they do not determine medical causation or fitness for work.

Draft a factual outline

Open Mary tools → Draft documents and ask:

Draft a factual outline of the event, treatment and reported effects on work.

If you need a particular structure, add:

Use Treatment-notes.pdf and Claimant-statement.pdf. Include pre-event history, the event and immediate accounts, treatment and observations, reported effects on work and activities, differences between accounts, and missing records. Keep event, consultation and report dates separate and cite important statements.

Follow Draft a document to check and edit the resulting text.

Check and share the work

Use Review and verify entries for chronology or tabular entries. Check whether records concern the same event before treating them as contradictory. For a draft, read and edit the text directly.

Find and export your work explains how to download the intended version with its dates, sources and unanswered points intact.