Checklist · Costs, billing & litigation funding
Queensland speculative personal injury costs cap worksheet
A Queensland worksheet for the section 347 maximum on claim-related costs. The lawyer applies the formula in the current section, and half the settlement is not the fee.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Queensland
- 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 5 authorities it cites, for Queensland.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use before a Queensland bill, or before a settlement costs disclosure, on a speculative personal injury claim. Do not use it in Victoria or New South Wales, and do not use it as the costs agreement.
Used for these tasks
- Compare a funding, uplift or common-fund agreement to the current rules
- Disclose the costs estimates before a settlement is executed
- Check a costs agreement does not calculate the fee from the outcome
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 lawyer's figures for E, R, D and the additional amounts, and it must not write the section 347 formula or treat half the settlement as the fee.
AI may
- Enter E, R and D from the judgment or settlement documents and from invoices the lawyer has accepted
- List additional amounts separately from D, including interest on a disbursement loan
- Leave the cap blank until the lawyer has applied the formula in the current official text
AI must not
- Must not print or reconstruct the section 347 formula, including any half-settlement arithmetic
- Must not use 50% of the amount recovered as the basis of the fee
- Must not put interest on a disbursement loan into D
- Must not say the agreement is void under section 327 except as the Proctor's statement, and must tell the lawyer to read section 327
- Must not apply this worksheet outside Queensland
The lawyer checks
- The matter is a speculative personal injury claim. The definition was not inside section 347 and has been read in the Act
- E, R and D match the definitions, and each refund in R has a source
- The cap is the lawyer's calculation from the formula in the current section, not a figure generated here
- A barrister's fee is classified only after section 347(8)(b) is applied
- If the bill would exceed the cap, a written application is made before the greater amount is charged
- The worksheet stays on the file and is not sent out as the costs agreement
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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