Line injury reports against New South Wales recognition payments
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Quote each description of the violence and its effect from the reports the lawyer marks, with the report name and page, beside the published payment descriptors the lawyer selects. Do not choose an amount.
- What the lawyer must review
- Choose the published amount from the type of violence, not from a medical percentage
- Check the effect report is a medical, dental or counselling report
- If that report is late, apply the 12-month lodgement rule before the file is closed
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. NSW Victims Support Scheme, recognition payments
Produce. A comparison table of report extracts against the published payment descriptors, with the amount left blank.
Have ready. Report of what happened; Medical, dental or counselling report; Recognition-payment page checked on the day.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: A counselling report describes the effect of a sexual assault that did not cause serious bodily injury. The table quotes the report and leaves the amount blank. The lawyer decides whether the published $5,000 band applies.
Stop and hand it back when
- There is no report of the effect for a primary victim and the 12-month period is not diarised.
- The tool selects a dollar amount.
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
- Use the amounts on the recognition-payment page: $15,000 for a financially dependent family victim of homicide or a child under 18 of the person who died; $7,500 for a parent, step-parent, guardian, current spouse or de facto partner; $10,000, $5,000 and $1,500 for the primary-victim bands that page describes.
- Do not treat the bands as injury percentages. The page bases the amount on the type of violence.
- For a primary victim, check there is a report of what happened and a medical, dental or counselling report of the effect.
- If the effect report is not lodged with the application, record the 12-month period. The page says the recognition-payment application is closed if the report is not sent in that period.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victims Services recognition payment: amounts, time and documents | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the Victims Services recognition payment page: the published amounts, who the page says may apply, the time limits printed on that page, and the documents a primary victim is asked to provide. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
- NSW Government: recognition payment through the Victims Support Scheme · 2026-10-23
- NSW Government: Victims Support Scheme · 2026-10-23
Not every offence has a recognition-payment category. The page says so.
Family victims of homicide use a different document list. Do not apply the primary-victim medical report rule to them without the family-victim page.