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Application for costs assessment of legal fees (UCPR Form 60)
Link to UCPR Form 60, the application a client or a law practice files when legal fees are assessed by a costs assessor.
- Kind
- Form. A form to complete, or a guide to completing an official one.
- Where it applies
- Queensland
- AI use
- Red You write the text. The tool writes nothing into the document. Where permitted, it may check, clarify or collect data, and anything it checks or collects is verified.
- Law stated as at
- 23 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 23 October 2026 against the official form at courts.qld.gov.au and the 2 authorities it cites, for Queensland.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Link to the official form. Licence: © State of Queensland (Queensland Courts). Link only: download the current form each time; do not copy or adapt it.
Where this comes from
The official form is published by courts.qld.gov.au; this page is a completion guide. Last checked on 2026-10-23.
When to use it
Use when a personal injury client, or the law practice, applies in the Queensland Supreme, District or Magistrates Court for an assessment of legal fees under the Legal Profession Act 2007.
Used for these tasks
- Record the 12-month date for a costs assessment application
- List the matters a costs assessor may consider
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 may list the bill, the court and the people to be served for the lawyer to check, and it writes nothing in the application that is filed.
AI may
- List the bills in issue, their dates and the amounts shown on them
- Note the court the legal-fees page selects from the amount of the bill
- List the people the lawyer still has to check against section 339
AI must not
- Must not write the application, the description of the costs, or the hearing estimate
- Must not nominate a costs assessor or state an hourly rate
- Must not file or serve the application, and must not copy the form's example initials into it
The lawyer checks
- Form 60 is the legal-fees application, filed with the Form 46 affidavit the courts page requires
- The court matches the page's bill bands
- Service within seven days, on the people section 339 covers
- The directions date is the date the registry allocates
- Any later request for reasons or review uses the periods printed on the courts page
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
Official form
Open the official form. Always use the current version from the issuer. Licence: © State of Queensland (Queensland Courts). Link only: download the current form each time; do not copy or adapt it..
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