---
title: "Record that the Queensland Civil Liability Act states no mental-harm economic-loss limit"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/check-a-consequential-mental-harm-claim-and-the-limit-on-economic-loss/queensland"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-FM20261023-10-QLD"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["QLD"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Record that the Queensland Civil Liability Act states no mental-harm economic-loss limit

> In a firm-controlled tool, record that the opened table of provisions of the Civil Liability Act 2003 contains no definition of consequential mental harm and no section limiting economic loss for mental harm.…

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Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | In a firm-controlled tool, record that the opened table of provisions of the Civil Liability Act 2003 contains no definition of consequential mental harm and no section limiting economic loss for mental harm. Leave the claim undecided. |
| What the lawyer must review | Do not apply an economic-loss limit taken from another statute. Do not invent a consequential-mental-harm definition. The opened table has none. Do not treat the absent section as a finding that wage loss is recoverable. |
| Written for | Queensland |
| Applies to | [Check a consequential mental harm claim and the limit on economic loss](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/check-a-consequential-mental-harm-claim-and-the-limit-on-economic-loss.md) |

## Checking plan

**Queensland, no economic-loss section**

The tool records that the opened table has no consequential-mental-harm definition and no economic-loss limit of that kind. The lawyer does not import one.

- What the AI does: In a firm-controlled tool, record that the opened table of provisions of the Civil Liability Act 2003 contains no definition of consequential mental harm and no section limiting economic loss for mental harm. Leave the claim undecided.
- What the lawyer does: Make the legal assessment, check the source material and authorise the output for its intended use.
- 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. Confirm the opened table has no such definition and no such limit.
2. Do not class the harm by a definition this Act does not contain.
3. Leave any psychiatric-illness finding blank.
4. Stop before advising that economic loss is open or closed.

## Notes

- The opened table of provisions of the Civil Liability Act 2003 contains no section limiting economic loss for mental harm to a recognised psychiatric illness, and no definition of consequential mental harm. Do not import that limit from another Act. In this Act, section 33 lets the court give directions, section 74 is the regulation-making power, and section 75 is indexation. This note does not decide those sections.
- Family, wage and medical records stay in a firm-controlled tool. ASCR r 9 and APP 11 apply. A breach may be notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Queensland: Civil Liability Act 2003, table of provisions opened 23 October 2026

**Deliverable**: A note that no economic-loss section was found, and a blank conclusion.

**Inputs**

- The opened table of provisions
- Whether wage loss is sought
- The medical material

**Example**: Illustrative example: The schedule claims wage loss for an illness. The tool records that the opened Act has no section limiting that loss to a recognised psychiatric illness, and it does not allow or refuse the loss.

**Stop and escalate when**

- Another statute's economic-loss limit is applied.
- The tool calls an illness recognised.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld), table of provisions](https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/cla2003161/) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Civil Proceedings Act 2011 (Qld) Part 10](https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2011-045) (checked 2026-10-23)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Psychiatrist's instructions on a recognised psychiatric illness](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/psychiatrist-recognised-psychiatric-illness.md) | Letter | Yellow | Letter asking a psychiatrist whether there is a recognised psychiatric illness for a mental harm claim, without asking the psychiatrist to apply the statutory tests. |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

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