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Workers Compensation

NSW

This publication assists practitioners in advising and representing clients in the highly regulated area of workers compensation in New South Wales.

2 Matter Plans

Overview

The commentary explains how to obtain initial Independent Review Office (IRO) approval and funding to act for injured workers under the Independent Legal Assistance and Review Service (ILARS) scheme, how to make and support an application, and how to conduct matters in the Personal Injury Commission.

The Reference materials folder includes guidance on electronic signing and witnessing, and the comprehensive Getting the matter underway folder includes compliance and client care documents. Using the extensive Retainer Instructions when gathering information ensures nothing is missed.

Also included is 101 Subpoena Answers, which is a useful reference guide.

Precedents in this publication include:

  • Letters to the client explaining the process at each stage;
  • Letters to clients, insurers, doctors, and relevant authorities gathering information;
  • Example statement of client;
  • Claim forms for permanent impairment and weekly payments;
  • Commutation agreements;
  • Example pleadings and particulars for common law damages.
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2 Matter Plans Included

  • Item icon Matter Summary (Personal Injury)
  • Item icon ALERTS - Nil
  • Item icon Full Commentary - Workers Compensation (NSW)
  • Folder icon Reference materials
    • Item icon AI Prompts
      An AI prompt defines a specific task for AI to perform, like drafting a particular document, and provides clear instructions on how to execute that task. The goal is for the AI to quickly create a useful first draft of a document, which the user verifies and refines into a final version, ultimately ...

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    • Item icon Looking to the Future
    • Item icon Electronic Signing and Witnessing
    • Item icon Appendix – History of amendments and claims under previous workers compensation legislation
      The history of legislative amendments There have been a number of recalibrations of the workers compensation scheme in NSW since the 1987 Act substantially overhauled the original 1926 Act. It can be very important to understand the amendments and to work out which law applies, depending on when ...

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    • Item icon Medical Glossary
    • Item icon 101 Subpoena Answers
    • Item icon 101 Costs Answers
    • Folder icon Papers and articles - Litigation
      • Item icon Improving written submissions - A paper by Judge Alan Troy
      • Item icon Plain language – A paper by the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
    • Folder icon Demonstrating the use of precedents
      • Item icon Demonstrating the Use of Precedents
        To demonstrate the range of precedents available in the guide and to illustrate how they can be adapted to a particular matter, one set of precedents are based on a set of facts in a debt recovery that escalates when a cross-claim is brought alleging a course of conduct between the parties and a ...

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      • Item icon Demonstration - Letter of demand
      • Item icon Demonstration - Response to letter of demand
      • Item icon Demonstration - Pleadings and particulars
      • Item icon Demonstration - Request for further and better particulars
      • Item icon Demonstration - Defence
      • Item icon Demonstration - Affidavit of defendant
      • Item icon Demonstration - Cross-claim or counterclaim
      • Item icon Demonstration - Defence to cross claim or counterclaim
      • Item icon Demonstration - Calderbank offer
      • Item icon Demonstration - ADR order - Referral to mediation
      • Item icon Demonstration - Mediation position paper - Plaintiff
      • Item icon Demonstration - Mediation position paper - Defendant
      • Item icon Demonstration - Consent orders
      • Item icon Demonstration - Deed of release - Settlement of proceedings
    • Item icon Further information
  • Item icon Overview and limitation periods
    The workers compensation system in New South Wales provides certain limited benefits to workers and their dependants in the event of a work related injury or disease. Commonwealth employers are covered by a separate statutory scheme called Comcare which this guide does not cover.

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  • Folder icon A. Getting the matter underway
    • Item icon File cover sheet - Workers compensation
    • Item icon First steps
    • Item icon Client details and verifying identity
    • Item icon Retainer instructions - Workers compensation claim
    • Item icon Conflict of interest check
    • Item icon Initial letter to client lump sum claim
    • Item icon Initial letter to client non lump sum claim
    • Item icon Costs agreement - NSW
    • Item icon Conditional costs agreement - NSW
    • Item icon Conditional costs agreement - Uplift fee - NSW
    • Item icon Scope of work - Workers compensation claim
    • Item icon Letter to client re contracting out of regulated costs
    • Item icon Workers Compensation Regulation 2016 - Schedule 7
    • Item icon Standard costs disclosure form for clients - Fees under $3000
    • Item icon Office of Legal Services Commissioner fact sheet – Regulated costs – Personal Injury Claims
    • Item icon Office of Legal Services Commissioner costs disclosure fact sheet – Costs Disclosure
    • Item icon Time and costs estimates
    • Folder icon If required - Updating costs disclosure
      • Item icon Letter to client updating costs disclosure
      • Item icon Charge securing costs
      • Item icon Guarantee securing costs
      • Folder icon Costs disclosure before settlement in litigation matters
        • Item icon Letter to client - Costs disclosure before settlement - NSW, VIC, and WA
        • Item icon Letter to client - Costs disclosure before settlement - QLD, SA, TAS, ACT, and NT
    • Item icon Taking instructions from applicants
      Initial instructions Determining the client’s entitlements to claim is always a threshold issue. Instructions should be obtained immediately as to the nature of the employment, including whether the client was a Commonwealth employee and therefore covered under Federal rather than New South Wales ...

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    • Item icon Obtaining approval for costs
      An application seeking approval for payment of costs must be made before any action is taken on a claim, otherwise lawyers risk not being able to charge for their work or receive any payment. Employers and their insurers are not liable to pay an injured worker’s costs involved in a workers ...

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    • Folder icon If required - Proceeding commenced in Workers Compensation Commission prior to March 2013
      • Item icon Schedule 6 Maximum costs—compensation matters - Workers Compensation Regulations 2016
      • Item icon Schedule 7 Maximum costs for legal services—work injury damages matters - Workers Compensation Regulations 2016
    • Item icon Responsibilities and procedures following a workplace injury
      Notification of injury Any workplace injury must be reported to the employer as soon as possible. There is no specific form but most employers or their insurer will have a form that needs to be completed.

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    • Folder icon Notification of injury
      • Item icon Notification of injury
        Any workplace injury must be reported to the employer as soon as possible. There is no specific form but most employers or their insurer will have a form that needs to be completed. The employer should then notify the insurer about the injury within 48 hours. Clause 9 of Schedule 3 ...

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      • Item icon Incident notification fact sheet - Safe Work Australia
    • Item icon Statement of client
    • Item icon Example - Statement of client
    • Folder icon General deeds, agreements, execution clauses, and statutory declarations
      • Item icon Deeds and Agreements
      • Folder icon Deeds
        • Item icon Deed for general use
        • Item icon Deed of guarantee
        • Item icon Deed of release
        • Item icon General deed of indemnity
        • Item icon Deed of assignment of agreement
        • Item icon Deed of gift
        • Folder icon Library of standard clauses for deeds
          • Item icon Amendment
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - One party
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of deed - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of deed - One party
          • Item icon Costs
          • Item icon Counterparts
          • Item icon Dispute resolution
          • Item icon Events beyond control
          • Item icon Governing law and jurisdiction
          • Item icon Interpretation
          • Item icon No assignment
          • Item icon Notices
          • Item icon Severance
          • Item icon Waiver
          • Item icon Whole agreement
      • Folder icon Agreements
        • Item icon Agreement for general use
        • Item icon Heads of agreement
        • Item icon Non-disclosure agreement - Formal
        • Item icon Non-disclosure agreement - Informal
        • Folder icon Library of standard clauses for agreements
          • Item icon Amendment
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - One party
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of agreement - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of agreement - One party
          • Item icon Costs
          • Item icon Counterparts
          • Item icon Dispute resolution
          • Item icon Events beyond control
          • Item icon Governing law and jurisdiction
          • Item icon Interpretation
          • Item icon No assignment
          • Item icon Notices
          • Item icon Severance
          • Item icon Waiver
          • Item icon Whole agreement
      • Folder icon Execution clauses
        • Folder icon Library of execution clauses for agreements
          • Item icon Attorney
          • Item icon Authorised officer
          • Item icon Company
          • Item icon Company - Sole director
          • Item icon Individual
          • Item icon Individual - No witness
        • Folder icon Library of execution clauses for deeds
          • Item icon Attorney
          • Item icon Authorised officer
          • Item icon Company
          • Item icon Company - Sole director
          • Item icon Individual
      • Folder icon Statutory declarations
        • Item icon Commonwealth statutory declaration
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - ACT
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - NSW
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - VIC
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - QLD
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - TAS
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - SA
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - WA
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - NT
        • Item icon Standard annexure note for documents
      • Item icon Standard annexure note for documents
  • Folder icon B. Gathering information
    • Folder icon Client
      • Item icon Letter to client on light duties and discontinuance of weekly compensation
      • Item icon Letter to client re light duties
      • Item icon Letter to client permanent impairment and negligence claim
      • Item icon Letter to client on how the Medicare system works
      • Item icon Letter to client re completion of Medicare statement
      • Item icon Letter to client on attending medical appointments and investigators
      • Item icon Letter to client to attend medical appointment
      • Item icon Letter to client to attend medical appointment made by insurer
    • Folder icon Centrelink
      • Item icon Centrelink - Authority to release personal information - personal injury, insurance, superannuation or other matter
      • Item icon Centrelink - Freedom of Information - request to access or change document(s)
      • Item icon Centrelink - Compensation advice of lump sum payments
      • Item icon Centrelink – Compensation and damages
    • Folder icon Doctor
      • Item icon Letter to treating doctor to request short initial report - Injury
      • Item icon Letter to treating doctor to request short initial report - Disease
      • Item icon Letter to treating doctor to request detailed report - Injury
      • Item icon Letter to treating doctor to request detailed report - Disease
      • Item icon Letter to specialist doctor to request detailed report - Injury
      • Item icon Letter to specialist doctor to request detailed report - Disease
      • Item icon Letter to specialist doctor to request hearing loss report
      • Item icon Expert witness code of conduct
      • Item icon Procedural Direction PIC4 – Expert Witness Evidence - PIC
      • Item icon Authority for medical records - General
      • Item icon Certificate of capacity/certificate of fitness
      • Item icon Letter to doctor seeking time for payment
      • Item icon Irrevocable authority to pay doctor
    • Folder icon Employer
      • Item icon Authority for information from employer
      • Item icon Letter to employer requesting information
    • Folder icon Hospital
      • Item icon Authority for hospital report
      • Item icon Letter to hospital for clinical notes and report with authority and fees
      • Item icon Request under the FOI Act - Hospital
    • Folder icon Insurer
      • Item icon Letter to insurer requesting section 126 information
    • Folder icon Medicare
      • Item icon Letter to Medicare for details of payments with authority
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Medicare history statement request
      • Item icon Medicare Australia - Request for Medicare claims information
      • Item icon Medicare Australia - Request for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme claims information
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Third party authority (no bar code)
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Section 23A statement
    • Folder icon icare
      • Item icon Letter to icare for details of insurers
      • Item icon Certificate of capacity/certificate of fitness
  • Folder icon C. Claims
    • Item icon Permanent impairment claims
      Section 66 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 entitles a worker to receive compensation for a work injury causing permanent impairment. The same entitlement exists for volunteer bush fire, emergency service or rescue workers under s 10 and s 24 of the Workers Compensation (Bush ...

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    • Item icon NSW workers compensation guidelines for the evaluation of permanent impairment – Fourth edition - SIRA
    • Item icon Link to SIRA - Workers compensation forms
    • Item icon Recess claims
      Section 11 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 provides for recess claims. If a worker receives a personal injury during a temporary absence from their place of employment, for example, at lunch time, or morning or afternoon tea time, the injury is deemed to have arisen out of or in the ...

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    • Item icon Journey claims
      Section 10 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 provides for journey claims. Workers injured when travelling between home and work are covered only if there is a real and substantial connection between the employment and the accident or incident out of which the personal injury arose.

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    • Item icon Interaction with the Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017
      The compulsory third party insurance scheme for motor vehicle accidents in New South Wales, administered under the Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 (MAIA), operates in conjunction with the workers compensation provisions under the Workers Compensation Act 1987. Injured workers must repay workers ...

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    • Item icon Authority to settle - MAIA and workers compensation
    • Item icon Claims for strokes and heart attacks
      Section 9B of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 provides that heart attacks, strokes and injuries relating to these conditions are not covered unless the nature of the employment gave rise to significantly greater risk.

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    • Item icon Property damage claims
      Damage to artificial limbs and other related articles Section 74 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 provides for such articles.

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    • Item icon Hearing impairment claims
      Section 17 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 provides for hearing loss claims. Boilermakers deafness, or industrial deafness, arises from an overexposure of a worker to high intensity noise levels in the course of employment. This deafness can be a gradual process occurring over many years ...

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    • Item icon Occupational disease claims
      Sections 15 and 16 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 deal with injuries which are contracted by a gradual process or which consist of aggravation, acceleration, exacerbation or deterioration of a disease. Sections 19, 19A and 19B provide for deeming of certain diseases to be work ...

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    • Item icon Psychological injury
      Section 65A of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 Act provides for psychological and psychiatric injury. Workplace stress which is intense and goes on for some time may lead to mental and physical ill health which constitutes psychological injury.

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    • Item icon Letter to client enclosing claim form for signature
    • Folder icon Employer
      • Item icon Letter to employer making weekly payments claim
      • Item icon Letter to employer making lump sum permanent impairment claim
      • Item icon Letter to employer making claim - General
    • Folder icon Insurer
      • Item icon Letter to insurer making weekly payments claim
      • Item icon Letter to insurer making lump sum permanent impairment claim
      • Item icon Letter to insurer making claim - General
    • Folder icon If required - Insurer has not accepted liability
      • Item icon Letter to client when dispute referred to PIC - Permanent impairment
      • Item icon Letter to client when dispute referred to PIC - General
  • Folder icon D. Medical assessment
    • Item icon Medical assessment
      An injured worker will be required to undergo medical assessment where there is a dispute about the degree of the worker’s permanent impairment, or where the Personal Injury Commission requires a medical assessment prior to determining any other dispute. A dispute as to the worker’s degree of ...

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    • Item icon Assessment process
      A claimant seeking an assessment of the degree of permanent impairment must lodge a threshold dispute application with the Commission. The application must include or attach:

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    • Item icon Only one assessment
      Only one assessment may be made of the degree of permanent impairment of an injured worker: s 322A of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998. Unless set aside by a successful appeal, the medical assessment certificate given by a medical assessor in respect of an ...

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    • Item icon Appeals against a medical assessment
      Circumstances where an appeal cannot be made Pursuant to s 327(7) of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 an appeal cannot be made against a medical assessment once the dispute concerned has been the subject of:

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    • Item icon Procedural Direction PIC6 – Medical Assessments – PIC
    • Item icon Letter to client on lodging medical assessment review
    • Item icon Procedural Direction PIC7 – Appeals, reviews, reconsiderations and correction of obvious errors in medical disputes - PIC
    • Item icon Certificate of service
    • Item icon Election to discontinue proceedings
  • Folder icon E. Benefits
    • Item icon Weekly benefits
      Section 33 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 provides for payment of weekly benefits to a worker for specified periods of total or partial incapacity arising from a work injury. The amount payable will vary according to:

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    • Item icon Medical expenses
      Period of entitlement to payment Section 59A of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 provides that, with the exception of workers with highest needs, as defined in s 32A(1), medical and other expenses will only be paid for a period of:

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    • Item icon Workers with highest needs
      The weekly compensation payment amount for workers with permanent impairment of more than 20% is indexed twice a year. The current amount payable is published within Regulation 8 of the Workers Compensation (Indexation) Order 2019. Payment of weekly benefits for workers with the highest needs ...

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    • Item icon Death benefits
      Division 1 of Part 3 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 deals with compensation payable on death. Persons who are wholly or partly dependent on the worker or, if there are no dependants, the estate of a worker are entitled to:

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    • Item icon Return to work assistance
      For workers returning to work with a new employer for a period of 3 months or greater, the pre-injury employer may be liable to pay compensation for the cost of work assistance provided to assist the worker to return to work with a new employer to a maximum of $1000: s 64B of the Workers ...

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  • Folder icon F. Commutation agreements
    • Item icon Commutation agreements
      One-off lump sum payment Section 87D of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 defines a commutation agreement as an agreement to commute a liability into a lump sum, as provided by s 87F. The provisions of Division 9 of Part 3 permit an insurer, an employer, and an injured worker to ...

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    • Item icon Deed of release
    • Item icon Instructions and authority to settle
    • Item icon Letter to client re full and final offer
    • Item icon Workers compensation complying agreement pursuant to s66A
    • Item icon Letter to insurer withdrawing from agreement
  • Folder icon G. Disputes
    • Item icon Review by insurer
      Disputes can be:

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    • Item icon Work capacity decisions
      Work capacity decisions are dealt with in s 43 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 and may relate to issues of:

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    • Item icon Procedural direction WC5 – Work capacity disputes – PIC
    • Item icon Workplace injury management disputes
      Return to work obligations An injured worker must make a reasonable effort to return to employment, or to pre-injury employment at their place of employment or at another place of employment.

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    • Item icon Procedural direction WC6 – Workplace injury management disputes – PIC
    • Item icon Dispute pathways – Workers compensation disputes – PIC
    • Item icon Lodge a dispute – Applying online – PIC
  • Folder icon H. IRO and ILARS
    • Item icon Process
      When a dispute arises, the injured worker may make application for funding to the IRO in order to obtain legal assistance. Lawyers within the IRO then undertake an assessment of the insurer’s decision regarding the injured worker’s entitlements and decide whether further information is necessary in ...

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    • Item icon Costs and expenses covered by grant
      Once approved, the grant will cover costs and disbursements in accordance with Schedules 6 and 7 of the Workers Compensation Regulation 2016 incurred from the date of the grant. The IRO will also pay the out-of-pocket expenses of obtaining medical reports, clinical notes, witness ...

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    • Item icon Application for ILARS Grant of Funding
    • Item icon Application and agreement to be an IRO approved lawyer
    • Item icon Guidelines for approval as an IRO Approved Lawyer
    • Item icon Practice standards for IRO approved lawyers
  • Folder icon I. Going to the Personal Injury Commission
    • Item icon Personal Injury Commission
      The Personal Injury Commission has a specialist Workers Compensation Division which resolves workers compensation disputes between injured workers and employers. There are some restrictions as to when and by whom a dispute may be referred to the Commission: ss 289 and 289A of the Workplace ...

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    • Item icon Filing an application
      Applications can only be filed online using the Commission’s Electronic Case Management (ECM) system, called Pathway. Division 4.3 of the Personal Injury Commission Rules 2021 deals with the ECM.

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    • Item icon Procedural Direction PIC3 – Documents - PIC
    • Item icon Procedural Direction PIC4 – Expert Witness Evidence - PIC
    • Item icon Dispute pathways – Workers compensation disputes – PIC
    • Item icon Lodge a dispute – Applying online – PIC
    • Item icon Letter to client advising of teleconference
    • Item icon Letter to client confirming agreement with copy of consent orders
    • Item icon Letter to client advising of PIC determination without a hearing
    • Folder icon If required - Expedited assessment
      • Item icon Expedited assessment
        Interim payment directions Section 297 of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 provides that an injured worker may seek an interim payment direction from the Personal Injury Commission, requiring an insurer to pay weekly benefits for a period of not more than ...

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      • Item icon Letter to employer serving unsealed application for expedited assessment
      • Item icon Letter to insurer serving unsealed application for expedited assessment
      • Item icon Letter to commission filing application for expedited assessment
      • Item icon Certificate of service
    • Folder icon If required - Hearing
      • Item icon Letter to client advising of PIC hearing
      • Item icon Letter to client advising PIC date
      • Item icon Letter to doctor for attendance at hearing
      • Item icon Letter to interpreter for attendance at hearing
      • Item icon Letter to client confirming agreement with copy of consent orders
    • Item icon Conciliation
      Preliminary procedure The initial step is usually for the Commission to arrange a teleconference, except in disputes regarding the extent of whole person impairment in relation to a lump sum claim or entitlement to bring a work injury damages claim, where the Commission will first order a medical ...

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    • Folder icon If required - Discontinuing the dispute
      • Item icon Discontinuing a dispute
        Rule 76 of the Personal Injury Commission Rules 2021 provides that an applicant may discontinue proceedings, or part of proceedings, as against one or all the other parties to the proceedings, at any time before the proceedings are finally determined.

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    • Folder icon If required - Appeals
      • Item icon Appeals against a non-presidential member’s decision
        The provisions of Division 13.2 of the Personal Injury Commission Rules 2021 and s 352 of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 apply to appeals against the decision of a non-presidential member of the Commission. Such appeals are made by application to the ...

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      • Item icon Procedural direction WC3 – Presidential appeals and questions of law
      • Item icon Appeals against a presidential member’s decision
        Section 353 of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 provides for appeals from a presidential member of the Personal Injury Commission to the Court of Appeal. However, pursuant to s 353(4) the following types of appeal may only proceed with leave of the Court ...

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  • Folder icon J. Going to court - Work injury damages
    • Item icon Outline
      An injured worker is eligible to make a work injury damages claim if the worker has an assessed whole person impairment of at least 15%, and the injury was caused by the employer’s negligence. The work injury damages claim must be made after, or at the same time as, the claim for lump sum ...

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    • Item icon Procedure
      An application for approval may be made to the Commission via the online portal. A commutation application must include:

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    • Item icon Brief to counsel - Injuries
    • Item icon Example content - Brief to counsel - Injuries
    • Item icon Statement of claim - filing party legally represented
    • Item icon Example content - Statement of claim
    • Item icon Statement of particulars - Personal injury proceedings
    • Item icon Example content - Statement of particulars
    • Item icon Certificate of service for work injury damages claims
    • Item icon Advising about a work injury damages claim
      A successful work injury damages settlement or judgment cancels all further entitlements to workers compensation benefits including lump sum payments, weekly payments, medical, hospital and rehabilitation expenses. Damages are paid as one lump sum and only cover the loss of past and future earnings ...

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    • Folder icon Library of UCPR forms
      • Item icon Acknowledgement of liquidated claim
      • Item icon Affidavit
      • Item icon Affidavit of debt
      • Item icon Affidavit of service
      • Item icon Appearance
      • Item icon Application to postpone, remit or waive payment of a court fee
      • Item icon Arbitrators award and registrars notice
      • Item icon Arrest warrant
      • Item icon Charging order
      • Item icon Consent judgment or consent order
      • Item icon Consent to act as tutor
      • Item icon Cross-summons
      • Item icon Defence
      • Item icon Defence - filing party acting in person or by authorised officer
      • Item icon Defence - No verification
      • Item icon Document in accordance with schedule 10 Rule 1.26 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
      • Item icon Election for trial by jury in defamation proceedings
      • Item icon Examination notice - Corporation
      • Item icon Examination notice - Individual
      • Item icon Examination order
      • Item icon Exhibit certificate
      • Item icon Expert witness code of conduct
      • Item icon Garnishee order for debts
      • Item icon Garnishee order for rent
      • Item icon Garnishee order for wages or salary
      • Item icon Garnishee's statement that no debt due or accruing or no wage or salary payable
      • Item icon General form
      • Item icon Indemnity Certificate
      • Item icon Instalment order and notice
      • Item icon Interrogatories
      • Item icon Judgment or order
      • Item icon List of documents
      • Item icon List of parties
      • Item icon Notice disputing facts and authenticity of documents
      • Item icon Notice of ceasing to act
      • Item icon Notice of change of address for service
      • Item icon Notice of change of solicitor or appointment of solicitor
      • Item icon Notice of contention (Parts 49 or 50)
      • Item icon Notice of discontinuance
      • Item icon Notice of intention to elect trial by jury in defamation proceedings
      • Item icon Notice of intention to file notice of ceasing to act
      • Item icon Notice of motion
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Arrest warrant for examination
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment for detention of goods
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment for liquidated claim
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment for unliquidated damages
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment on claim for possession of land
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Examination order
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Garnishee order
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Objection to instalment order or order refusing instalment application
      • Item icon Notice of motion - rehearing after arbitration
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Writ for possession of land
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Writ for the delivery of goods
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Writ for the levy of property
      • Item icon Notice of motion to pay by instalments - Corporation
      • Item icon Notice of motion to pay by instalments - Individual
      • Item icon Notice of payment
      • Item icon Notice of removal of solicitor
      • Item icon Notice to admit facts and authenticity of documents
      • Item icon Notice to occupier
      • Item icon Notice to plead facts - Money claims
      • Item icon Notice to produce for inspection
      • Item icon Notice to produce to court
      • Item icon Order for production
      • Item icon Possession of land coversheet
      • Item icon Plaintiff's affidavit used in family provision matters - Practice note no. SC Eq 7
      • Item icon Registrar's examination - Corporation
      • Item icon Registrar's examination - Individual
      • Item icon Reply
      • Item icon Registration or filing of certificate of judgment or order
      • Item icon Reply - No verification
      • Item icon Request for service abroad of judicial documents and certificate
      • Item icon Scott schedule
      • Item icon Statement of cross-claim
      • Item icon Statement of cross-claim - No verification
      • Item icon Statement of issues
      • Item icon Statement of claim - filing party in person or by authorised officer
      • Item icon Statement of claim - filing party legally represented
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim
      • Item icon Statement of claim - No verification
      • Folder icon Statement of liquidated claim - for use with many invoices or payments
        • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim - No verification and no tables
        • Item icon Table of invoices table of interest for use in no table SOC
        • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim - No tables
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim - No verification
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated cross-claim
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated cross-claim - No verification
      • Item icon Statement of particulars - Compensation to relatives
      • Item icon Statement of particulars - Personal injury proceedings
      • Item icon Submitting Appearance
      • Item icon Subpoena to attend to give evidence
      • Item icon Subpoena to attend to give evidence and to produce with subpoena notice and declaration
      • Item icon Subpoena to produce with subpoena notice and declaration
      • Item icon Summons
      • Item icon Summons (Judicial Review)
      • Item icon Timetable
      • Item icon Witness statement
      • Item icon Writ for levy of property
      • Item icon Writ of delivery
      • Item icon Writ of possession
      • Folder icon Adoption
        • Item icon Affidavit of service of notice of application for adoption order and-or consent dispense order
        • Item icon Affidavit of birth parent
        • Item icon Affidavit of intended parent
        • Item icon Affidavit of referee
        • Item icon Appearance
        • Item icon Order (adoption and approval of adoption plans)
        • Item icon Order (adoption and registration of adoption plans)
        • Item icon Summons for adoption
      • Folder icon Court of Appeal
        • Item icon General form
        • Item icon Notice of appeal
        • Item icon Notice of intention to appeal
        • Item icon Summons seeking leave to appeal
      • Folder icon Land and Environment Court
        • Item icon General form
        • Item icon Application - Classes 1, 2 or 3
        • Item icon Tree dispute claim details (damage to property or injury to a person)
      • Folder icon Probate / Letters of Administration
        • Item icon Acknowledgement under s83 of the Probate Act
        • Item icon Administration bond
        • Item icon Affidavit
        • Item icon Affidavit as to de facto relationship
        • Item icon Affidavit confirming service of notice of proceedings
        • Item icon Affidavit that deceased was NOT in a de facto relationship
        • Item icon Affidavit of additional assets and or liabilities
        • Item icon Affidavit of applicant for administration
        • Item icon Affidavit of applicant for administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Affidavit of applicant for resealing
        • Item icon Affidavit of attesting witness
        • Item icon Affidavit of consent to distribution of a gift
        • Item icon Affidavit of executor
        • Item icon Affidavit of surety
        • Item icon Affidavit relating to domestic partnership
        • Item icon Annexure tear sheet
        • Item icon Answer to notice to apply for administration
        • Item icon Answer to notice to apply for probate
        • Item icon Application to publish Notice of intended distribution of an estate
        • Item icon Application for exemplification
        • Item icon Breakdown and codes for grant of probate, letters of administration or letters of administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Caveat
        • Item icon Consent of affected person
        • Item icon Consent to administration
        • Item icon Grant of probate, letters of administration or letters of administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Deed of appointment of executor or administrator
        • Item icon Inventory of property
        • Item icon Notice of appointment of executor or administrator
        • Item icon Notice of filing of accounts
        • Item icon Notice of intended application for administration where there may be a de facto spouse or domestic partner
        • Item icon Notice of intended distribution
        • Item icon Notice of intended objection to accounts and or commission
        • Item icon Notice of motion for order passing accounts and for commission
        • Item icon Notice of objection to appointment of executor or administrator
        • Item icon Notice of proceedings
        • Item icon Notice of withdrawal of caveat
        • Item icon Notice to affected persons
        • Item icon Notice to apply for administration
        • Item icon Notice to apply for probate
        • Item icon Opt out notice
        • Item icon Plaintiff's affidavit used in family provision matters - Practice note no. SC Eq 7
        • Item icon Renunciation in favour of NSW Trustee & Guardian
        • Item icon Renunciation of probate
        • Item icon Reseal
        • Item icon Summons for administration
        • Item icon Summons for administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Summons for probate
        • Item icon Summons for reseal
    • Item icon Clause - Generative AI disclosure
    • Item icon Clause - Generative AI disclosure with annexure or exhibit
  • Folder icon K. Finalising the matter
    • Folder icon If required - Medicare and Centrelink
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Notice of judgment or settlement
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Section 23A statement
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Bank account details collection (no bar code)
      • Item icon Centrelink - Compensation advice of lump sum payments
    • Item icon Letter to other side's solicitors for payment of award
    • Item icon Letter to client with copy of determination
    • Item icon Letter to client 10% of settlement monies to Medicare Australia
    • Item icon Example invoice incorporating notification of client's rights - NSW
    • Item icon Invoice recital - Injuries, works compensation, victims support
    • Item icon Closing the file
    • Item icon File closing checklist
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