---
title: "Frame contributory negligence under the Queensland Civil Liability Act"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-the-issues-for-a-contributory-negligence-reduction/queensland"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-SB20261022-2-QLD"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["QLD"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Frame contributory negligence under the Queensland Civil Liability Act

> Set out the section 23 facts and the section 24 reduction questions from the approved facts. Do not choose a percentage.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-the-issues-for-a-contributory-negligence-reduction/queensland  
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 | Set out the section 23 facts and the section 24 reduction questions from the approved facts. Do not choose a percentage. |
| What the lawyer must review | Decide what the person knew or ought reasonably to have known at the time A reduction of 100 per cent is open only if the court finds it just and equitable The tool does not choose the percentage |
| Written for | Queensland |
| Applies to | [Prepare the issues for a contributory negligence reduction](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-the-issues-for-a-contributory-negligence-reduction.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The lawyer decides contributory negligence and any reduction. The tool does not choose a percentage.

- What the AI does: Set out the section 23 facts and the section 24 reduction questions from the approved facts. Do not choose a percentage.
- 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. Section 23 applies the breach principles to the person who suffered harm. The standard is a reasonable person in that person's position, judged on what that person knew or ought reasonably to have known at the time.
2. Section 24 allows the court to reduce the damages by 100 per cent if that is just and equitable, which defeats the claim. The tool does not say that this is the result.
3. Use only facts the lawyer has approved. Separate what the person knew from what the person ought reasonably to have known.
4. If the work may be used in a filed submission, the practitioner checks it under Practice Direction 5 of 2025 or Practice Direction 12 of 2025.

## Notes

- The tool arranges the questions. It does not decide breach, contributory negligence or the reduction.
- Guidance Statement No. 37: check this product before it is used, and keep the file in a firm-controlled tool.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Queensland claims to which the Civil Liability Act 2003 applies. The lawyer confirms the Act applies to this claim.

**Deliverable**: A set of contributory-negligence questions and sourced facts for the lawyer's advice.

**Inputs**

- Approved facts on what the person knew and did
- The pleaded risk of harm
- Any section 9 precaution findings already made

**Example**: Illustrative example: The draft treats a later precaution by the person as if it proved negligence at the time. The lawyer removes that inference and decides the reduction, if any, from what was known at the time.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The output states a percentage.
- The facts are not the approved facts.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld), sections 23 and 24](https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/html/current/act-2003-016) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Supreme Court of Queensland Practice Direction 5 of 2025](https://www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/889148/sc-pd-5-pf-2025.pdf) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Queensland Law Society Guidance Statement No. 37](https://www.qls.com.au/practising-law-in-qld/ethics/guidance-statements/no-37-artificial-intelligence-in-legal-practice) (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.*