Court document · Personal Injury & Compensation

Schedule of damages for a personal injury claim

Heads of damage for a plaintiff claim, with the Victorian, Queensland and New South Wales limits, in a form that can be adapted to a Queensland statement of loss and damage.

Kind: Court document. A document filed or served in a court or tribunal.
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 8 authorities it cites, for Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.
Version: 1
Source: Written for this library

When to use it

Use when a plaintiff firm sets out the heads of loss for a personal injury claim that will be served, included in a court book, or used to instruct an expert. In Queensland, adapt Part B so the document can be signed and served as the statement of loss and damage. Do not use the figures below for a transport-accident or workers-compensation damages claim until the lawyer confirms that these Acts apply.

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 may assemble the schedule from figures, assumptions and page references the lawyer has already adopted, and it must leave every unadopted amount blank.

AI may

Lay out the heads in Part A and copy in only amounts, dates and page references the lawyer has marked as adopted
Flag a head that is still blank, a period with no invoice or wage record, and a total that does not add up
In Queensland, arrange the adopted material under the topics in Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 r 547(3)

AI must not

Must not choose a percentage of a most extreme case, an injury scale value, a weekly loss, a discount rate or a care rate
Must not insert an indexed cap, average weekly earnings figure or superannuation rate from memory, or reuse a figure from another matter
Must not sign the statement, file or serve it, or write anything in a statutory declaration or verification
Must not generate the content of an affidavit or the words of a witness's evidence

The lawyer checks

Confirm which Act applies. Transport-accident and workers-compensation statutes can displace the Wrongs Act and the Civil Liability Acts
Check every figure, date and page reference against the source record before the schedule is signed, served or given to the court
Health, wage and Centrelink records stay in a firm-controlled tool. Check confidentiality under ASCR r 9, security under APP 11, and whether any breach is notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
In Victoria, if the schedule is provided to the Court, verify it under Practice Note SC Gen 25. In New South Wales, Practice Note SC Gen 23 para 10 prohibits generative AI in the content of an affidavit

Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.

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