Legal Practitioners
This area provides easy access to documents including policies, guidelines, legal costs orders and model litigant guidelines, for use by legal practitioners in personal injury proceedings under the Accident Compensation Act 1985.
Policies, Protocols, Guidelines & Explanatory Notes
- WorkSafe Policy and Procedure Summary Update - 30 March 2012
- WorkSafe Policy and Procedure Summary Update - 8 December 2011
- WorkSafe Policy and Procedure Summary Update - 24 October 2011
- WorkSafe Policy and Procedure Summary Update - 1 July 2011
- Guidelines for compensation for death of a worker
- Policy & Procedure regarding use and consent of Form D
- Policy in relation to Corporations Act
- Medical and Allied Professional Engagement Strategy - 16 April 2010
- Electronic Lodgement of S134AB Applications
Costs
- Legal Costs in Dependency Claims - Non Court Involvement
- Pre-Litigated Legal Costs Order Disbursement Guidelines
- Policy On Time Limits on Plaintiff Costs Claims
- Guidelines for Costs Orders and Costs Recovery
- Cost Recoveries Governance Structure
Ministerial Directions and Legal Costs Orders
- Ministerial Directions - Sections 98 & 98A Compensation Claims
- Ministerial Directions - S134AB
- WorkCover Legal Costs Order 2001
- WorkCover Legal Costs Order 2006
- WorkCover Legal Costs Order 2010
- WorkCover (Pre-Litigated Claims) Legal Costs Order October 2010
- WorkCover (Litigated Claims) Legal Costs Order October 2010
- Indexation of Amounts in WorkCover (Litigated Claims) Legal Costs Order 2010
Common Law Forms
- Pre-Application Request for Comparable Earnings
- Common Law - Form A
- Common Law - Form B
- Common Law - Form C
- Common Law - Form D Medical Authority
Model Litigant Guidelines
Presentations
Legal Liaison Group (LLG)
Legal Liaison Group Membership
General
- LLG Composition - 26 June 2008
- Cost Claim Policy - 26 June 2008
- Service of Revocations - 26 June 2008
- Costs and County Court Settlement Conferences - 27 November 2008
- Costs and County Court Settlement Conferences Attachments - 27 November 2008
Meeting - 01 October 2010
- Agenda
- Minutes
- Key Issues
- Plaintiff Costs Management
- Discussion Paper on Cost Recovery Governance Structure
- Discussion Paper on Court Led Alternative Dispute Resolution
Meeting - 10 December 2010
Meeting - 31 March 2011
- Agenda
- Minutes
- Key Issues
- Proposed Form for Pre Application Requests for Comparable Earnings
- Management of Pre-Litigated Cost Disbursements
Meeting - 1 July 2011
Meeting - 24 October 2011 (Papers Only)
Meeting - 8 December 2011
- Agenda
- Minutes
- Presentation from External Actuaries
- Presentation from WorkSafe on Key Issues Update
- Key Issues
- Common Law Overview
- WorkSafe Policy and Procedure Update
- Trends in Issuing of Originating Motions
- Proposal for electronic Lodgement of Serious Injury Applications
Meeting - 30 March 2012
- Agenda
- Presentation from External Actuaries
- Key Issues
- Common Law Overview
- WorkSafe Policy and Procedure Update
- Discussion Paper - Guidelines for s92A Claims
- Discussion Paper - Medical Authority
- Discussion Paper - Use of Senior Counsel in OMs
- Information Paper - Judicial Settlement Conferences
