Letter · Costs, billing & litigation funding
Revised costs estimate for a personal injury claim
Letter setting out the revised professional fees and injury disbursements for a personal injury client. The lawyer enters every figure, and the Uniform Law understanding step and the Queensland written disclosure are kept apart.
- Kind
- Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Where it applies
- Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 23 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 23 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Enclose it with the costs update notice when the figures on a plaintiff personal injury file are revised. Use it in New South Wales, Victoria or Queensland. Do not use it as the opening estimate, as the bill, or as the disclosure signed before a settlement.
Used for these tasks
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
The tool can lay out the table. The lawyer enters every figure, decides the variables, and decides whether the client's signature is one of the steps that satisfies section 174(3).
AI may
- Build the table with blank amounts for professional fees, records, medico-legal reports, counsel and other disbursements
- Keep the New South Wales and Victorian acknowledgement separate from the Queensland acknowledgement
- Refer a Queensland speculative cap to the cap worksheet
AI must not
- Must not insert a dollar amount, a range, or a total
- Must not treat the client's signature as all of the reasonable steps in section 174(3)
- Must not ask a Queensland client to consent because section 315 requires consent
- Must not calculate a speculative-costs cap
The lawyer checks
- Every figure matches the lawyer's revised estimate and the update notice describes the same change
- On a Uniform Law file, the lawyer records what was done, besides the signature, to be satisfied the client understood and consented
- On a Queensland file, the letter is part of the written disclosure under section 315 and the signature is a record of receipt
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