---
title: "Revised costs estimate for a personal injury claim"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/firm-pi-costs-estimate-revision"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a42-firm-pi-costs-estimate-revision"
area_id: "A42"
kind: "letter"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A42-PE20261022-1"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23"
---

# Revised costs estimate for a personal injury claim

> Letter setting out the revised professional fees and injury disbursements for a personal injury client.…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/firm-pi-costs-estimate-revision  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-23

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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.

## Key facts

- Kind: Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Practice area: [Costs, billing & litigation funding](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding.md)
- Jurisdictions: Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-23
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-23 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.

## 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

- [Update the costs disclosure after a significant change to the estimate](https://ailawframework.com/obligations/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/update-the-costs-disclosure-after-a-significant-change-to-the-estimate.md)

## 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

## Authorities

- [Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) s 174(1)(b), (2)(b) and (3), AustLII compilation](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/lpul333/s174.html)
- [Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld) s 315, ongoing obligation to disclose, AustLII compilation](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/lpa2007179/s315.html)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/firm-pi-costs-estimate-revision and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

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