Record the Queensland general-damages notice for the year of the injury
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Record the injury scale value the lawyer assesses and the general-damages figure only where the lawyer says the injury arose in the 2026-27 year and names the band. Otherwise leave the dollar blank. Do not pick the value.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer assesses the injury scale value
- Use the 2026-27 notice only for an injury arising in that year
- The notice is the 'as made' text, not a reprint for every year
- An injury scale value below 5 does not of itself bar damages
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. Queensland general damages under Civil Liability Act sections 61 and 62
Produce. A record of the injury scale value and, only for a 2026-27 injury, the notice band the lawyer names. The dollar is otherwise blank.
Have ready. The injury scale value the lawyer assesses; The date the injury arose.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: The lawyer assesses an injury scale value for an injury in 2024. The record stores the value and leaves the dollar blank, because the 2026-27 notice does not apply.
Stop and hand it back when
- The draft picks the injury scale value.
- The draft uses the 2026-27 figures for an injury that arose in another year.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Do not begin AI assistance until the responsible lawyer has defined and confirmed its permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Section 61: an injury scale value from 0 to 100 for an injury arising after 1 December 2002. The scale includes a case not severe enough to justify any award. The court uses the regulation rules and similar previous cases. If the value is outside the prescribed range, the court states the factors under section 61(2).
- Section 62: general damages are the base amount plus the variable amount fixed by a notice under section 75 for the period in which the injury arose. The year is the year of the injury, not the year of the award. Section 75 itself was not opened.
- The Civil Liability Indexation Notice 2026 section 4 fixes the amounts for the 2026-27 financial year. The page is headed as subordinate legislation as made. For an injury arising in that year, record only the band the lawyer names. An injury scale value of 5 or less has no base and is the value times $2,010. More than 5 to 10 has a base of $10,050 plus $2,360 for each value above 5. Do not apply this notice to an earlier injury. Leave the dollar blank if the year is not 2026-27.
- The tool does not pick the injury scale value. Civil Liability Regulation 2025 section 14 says an injury scale value assessed by a court must be a whole number. Schedule 3 sets ranges of injury scale values. It does not set dollar amounts. Those ranges were not copied.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland injury scale value worksheet | Other | AI use Yellow | Worksheet for general damages under Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) sections 61 and 62. |
| New South Wales section 16 non-economic loss worksheet | Other | AI use Yellow | Worksheet for non-economic loss under Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) section 16, using the percentage table and the rounding rule in the section. |
| Victoria Wrongs Act caps worksheet | Other | AI use Yellow | Worksheet for the Wrongs Act 1958 (Vic) limits that were opened: the earnings cap, the indexed non-economic loss maximum, the discount rate, and the gratuitous care limits. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
- Civil Liability Indexation Notice 2026 (Qld) section 4 · 2026-10-23
- Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) section 62 · 2026-10-23
- Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) section 61 · 2026-10-23
The notice's other bands for 2026-27 were read and match the notice. They are used only if the lawyer names the band and the injury arose in that year.
Section 51, defining general damages, was not opened. If chapter 3 does not apply because of section 5, this notice is not used.