--- title: "VCAT legal practice list application (civil disputes)" url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/form-vic-vcat-legal-costs" type: "precedent" site: "AI Law Framework" id: "a42-form-vic-vcat-legal-costs" area_id: "A42" kind: "form" ai_level: "red" version: 1 task_ids: ["A42-PE20261022-20", "A42-PE20261022-3"] law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23" --- # VCAT legal practice list application (civil disputes) > Link to the VCAT application for an order about legal costs or legal services, including the Uniform Law path and the Australian Consumer Law path. Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/form-vic-vcat-legal-costs Law stated as at: 2026-10-23 Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt ## Key facts - Kind: Form. A form to complete, or a guide to completing an official one. - Practice area: [Costs, billing & litigation funding](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding.md) - Jurisdictions: Victoria - AI level: 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: 2026-10-23 - Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-23 against the official form at vcat.vic.gov.au and the 3 authorities it cites, for Victoria. ## When to use it Use this when a personal-injury client asks VCAT to decide a costs dispute with a lawyer, or a related legal-services claim. A Uniform Law costs dispute needs the Commissioner's notice. A claim above the figure on the VCAT page goes to the Costs Court instead. ## Used for these tasks - [Check a bill states the avenues and time limits for a costs dispute](https://ailawframework.com/obligations/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/check-a-bill-states-the-avenues-and-time-limits-for-a-costs-dispute.md) - [Advise whether a disclosure failure blocks recovery of the costs](https://ailawframework.com/obligations/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding.md#A42-PE20261022-3) ## How AI may be used The tool indexes the application fields and does not write the acknowledgement or choose the Act, the orders, or the grounds. **AI may:** - Index the parties, the amount claimed and the documents the page says to attach, from the file. - Diary seven days from lodgement as the form's time to serve the respondent, and 60 days from the Commissioner's notice where the case-type page applies that limit. **AI must not:** - Do not write or sign the acknowledgement, and do not write a statutory declaration for a standard-fee claim. - Do not select the Act, the orders, or the reasons in questions 17 and 18. - Do not describe the claim in question 19. That is the client's account of the problem. - Do not treat the Legal Services Board complaint times as this form's time limit. **The lawyer checks:** - The case-type page says a Uniform Law costs dispute requires that the Commissioner has dealt with it and not resolved it, and that the costs in dispute are less than $78,585 for applications made after 30 June 2025. Above that figure the page sends the claim to the Costs Court. - The same page says the application must be made within 60 days after the Commissioner's written notice. If that limit is about to expire, the page says to contact VCAT rather than assume the form can be lodged late. - The form says the application must be served on the respondent within seven days, with evidence of service at the hearing. - The acknowledgement warns that it is an offence under section 136 of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 1998 to knowingly give false or misleading information. - A company claiming the standard fee must provide a statutory declaration. The tool does not write it. - The form prints admin@courts.vic.gov.au and 1300 01 8228, 9am to 4.30pm weekdays. The case-type page's visible text prints the same email, and its link target is admin@vcat.vic.gov.au. Check which inbox is current. - Health information stays in a firm-controlled tool. Check ASCR r 9, APP 11, and whether any disclosure would be a notifiable breach under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). ## Authorities - [VCAT, Application for order in the Legal Practice List, civil disputes (print form)](https://www.vcat.vic.gov.au/media/398/download) - [VCAT, Dispute legal costs or seek compensation](https://www.vcat.vic.gov.au/case-types/legal-practice/dispute-legal-costs-or-seek-compensation) - [Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner, Disputing your bill](https://lsbc.vic.gov.au/consumers/legal-costs-and-billing/disputing-your-bill) ## Official form [Official form](https://www.vcat.vic.gov.au/media/398/download) ## Where this comes from The official form is published by vcat.vic.gov.au; this page is a completion guide. Last checked on 2026-10-23. ## 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/form-vic-vcat-legal-costs 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.*