---
title: "Reconcile Queensland workers damages costs with the speculative-claim cap"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/obligations/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/reconcile-workers-compensation-legal-costs-with-the-costs-agreement/queensland"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A42-CS20261023-6-QLD"
practice_area: "Costs, billing & litigation funding"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["QLD"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Reconcile Queensland workers damages costs with the speculative-claim cap

> From the damages outcome and the invoices the lawyer marks, list the section 347 inputs, including any funding interest. Do not state the charge. Do not apply a compensation scale from another scheme.

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Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Costs, billing & litigation funding](https://ailawframework.com/obligations/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | From the damages outcome and the invoices the lawyer marks, list the section 347 inputs, including any funding interest. Do not state the charge. Do not apply a compensation scale from another scheme. |
| What the lawyer must review | Test a speculative damages claim against section 347. Keep funding interest in additional amounts, not in disbursements. Check the 2025 regulation before treating section 347 as the only limit. Do not state a 2025 regulation cost the opened schedule does not contain. |
| Written for | Queensland |
| Applies to | [Reconcile workers compensation legal costs with the costs agreement](https://ailawframework.com/obligations/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/reconcile-workers-compensation-legal-costs-with-the-costs-agreement.md) |

## Checking plan

**Queensland workers damages costs**

The tool lists the section 347 inputs. The lawyer checks the 2025 regulation before deciding there is no further limit.

- What the AI does: From the damages outcome and the invoices the lawyer marks, list the section 347 inputs, including any funding interest. Do not state the charge. Do not apply a compensation scale from another scheme.
- What the lawyer does: Apply section 347 and decide whether the 2025 regulation adds a limit.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in this practice area
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. Section 347 applies to a speculative personal injury claim, and its additional-amounts definition refers to a notice of claim under section 275 of the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003.
2. Barrister's fees for services after a notice of claim under section 275 of the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 are not additional amounts. The urgent-proceeding exclusion is separate. It takes out barrister's fees for services before that notice, or before a notice under section 9 or 9A of the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002, where an urgent proceeding of the kind section 347 states has been started.
3. A costs schedule in the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Regulation 2025 was not opened. The lawyer reads it before treating section 347 as the only limit.
4. No compensation-matter scale from another scheme is applied.

## Notes

- This version is the damages-claim cap. It is not a finding that statutory workers compensation has no costs scale.
- Keep medical details in the firm's system. Apply the confidentiality duty and APP 11, and check whether a Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) breach is notifiable.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Queensland. A speculative work-injury damages claim under section 347.

**Deliverable**: A section 347 input list for a workers damages claim, flagged for the 2025 regulation.

**Inputs**

- Damages outcome marked by the lawyer
- Whether a section 275 notice was given
- Disbursements and funding interest

**Example**: Illustrative example: Barrister's fees after the section 275 notice are added as additional amounts. The lawyer removes them from that category, because section 347 excludes those fees.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The 2025 regulation is assumed to contain no costs limit without being opened.
- Another scheme's workers scale is applied.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld) s 347, speculative personal injury claims](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/lpa2007179/s347.html) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Legal Services Commission (Qld), costs disclosure and costs agreements](https://www.lsc.qld.gov.au/for-the-profession/policies-and-guidelines/costs-disclosure-and-costs-agreements) (checked 2026-10-23)

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*