Calculate Queensland interest and leave out the barred heads
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Calculate interest only on the past monetary loss the lawyer accepts, and leave out general damages and section 59 gratuitous services. Do not insert the bond rate.
- What the lawyer must review
- Leave out general damages and section 59 services
- Do not extend the services bar to section 59A
- The cap is the bond rate, not half of it
- Do not insert the current rate
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. Queensland interest on an award of personal injury damages to which chapter 3 applies
Produce. An interest working on past monetary loss only, with the rate blank until the lawyer confirms it is within the bond rate.
Have ready. The past monetary loss the lawyer accepts and the period it was incurred; The rate the lawyer confirms.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: The working calculates interest on past out-of-pocket expenses at the rate the lawyer typed. It leaves general damages out, and it does not halve the bond rate.
Stop and hand it back when
- The draft inserts a bond rate.
- The draft adds interest on general damages or on section 59 services.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Calculate interest only on the past monetary loss the lawyer accepts, and leave out general damages and section 59 gratuitous services. Do not insert the bond rate. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Section 60(1): a court cannot order interest on an award for general damages, or on an award of damages for gratuitous services provided to an injured person. That second bar is in section 60(1)(b). The services it describes are gratuitous services provided to an injured person, which is the section 59 subject. Section 60 does not name section 59A. Do not extend the bar to section 59A.
- Interest on damages compensating past monetary loss must not be more than the appropriate rate and must relate to the period the loss was incurred.
- The appropriate rate is the rate for 10-year Treasury bonds published by the Reserve Bank under Capital Market Yields, Government Bonds, Daily, F2, as at the beginning of the quarter in which the award of interest is made. The current rate was not opened. Do not insert a number.
- The example formula in the section is an example for expenses incurred at a uniform rate. The letter a is a percentage the court decides, subject to the section 60(2) limit. The cap is the bond rate. Do not treat the example's 0.5 as the rate.
Sources
- Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) section 60 · 2026-10-23
- Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) section 5 · 2026-10-23
Apply this only if the lawyer says chapter 3 applies. Section 5 may take the injury outside the Act.
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