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Terms of use

These terms apply to everyone who uses myworkerscomplawyer.com.au. Using the site means you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

General information, not legal advice. This page sets out how the law generally applies. It does not take account of your circumstances, and you should get advice about your own situation before acting on it. The official sources this page is written from are listed on it; where they differ from anything here, they are the authority.

Last updated: 23 September 2026

Most of what follows exists to make two things unambiguous. Reading this website does not make anyone your lawyer, and nothing published here is advice about your claim.

That is not a disclaimer written to shed responsibility. A workers compensation matter turns on particulars: how the injury happened, what your employer was told and when, what this week’s certificate of capacity says and what the one before it said, and exactly what the insurer has put in writing. A page written for everybody knows none of those. When a guess about them is wrong, it is somebody’s weekly payments or somebody’s treatment that stops.

General information, not advice about your claim

Everything on this site is general information about the New South Wales workers compensation scheme and the procedure that runs it. It is not advice, it is not a substitute for advice about your own claim, and it is not an offer to act for you.

Where a page states a rule, it lists at the foot of that page the official source the rule came from. Those sources are the authority and this site is not. If the two ever differ, the official source is right and the page here is wrong.

Working out how the scheme applies to you takes a conversation about your facts and a look at your documents. How the scheme works sets out the sequence that conversation usually fits into, and the guides are written to help you prepare for it rather than to replace it.

No page here tells you whether your claim will be accepted, whether your weekly payments will continue, or what an impairment assessment will find. Those turn on medical evidence and on documents this site has never seen.

Your dates come off your own documents, not off this site

A workers compensation matter runs on dates, and the periods that run from them are short and applied strictly. The period for making a claim after an injury, the period for asking an insurer to look again at a decision it has made, and the period for taking a dispute to the Personal Injury Commission are three different things. They are governed by different provisions and they start from different events.

This site does not print those periods, and that is deliberate. Which one applies to you depends on the kind of claim, on the injury, on when it was notified and on which document you are holding. The legislation has also moved recently: the Personal Injury Commission records amending Acts assented to in 2025 and in 2026, a regulation that commenced on 1 July 2026, and further changes expected later in 2026. A period copied off a website is exactly the thing a person in your position should not be relying on.

Read the period off your own document instead. A written decision from an insurer should say what can be asked of it and within what time, and when a decision goes against you explains what that document is and what it is for. Certificates of capacity and notifying an injury at work deal with the two documents that dates most often run from. None of the three tells you your deadline, because none of them can.

If a date looks as though it has already passed, that is a reason to get advice quickly rather than a reason to stop. Some periods can be extended in some circumstances and others cannot, and which is which is not a question to settle from a web page.

Accuracy, currency, and why there are no figures here

Workers compensation law in New South Wales changes, and it has changed substantially in the last two years. Entitlements, the way injuries are assessed, the way claims are managed and the way disputes are decided have each been amended. A page that was accurate when it was written may not be accurate when you read it.

Every page here carries the date it was last updated. Treat that date as the limit of what is being said. It means the page matched the official sources on that day. It does not promise that the page still matches them today, and nothing on this site is being monitored on your behalf.

You will not find a payment rate, an impairment percentage, a threshold, a period expressed in days or weeks, or any fee figure anywhere on this site. Those are the numbers people most want from a page like this, and they are the numbers most likely to be wrong for a particular reader. They are published, and kept current, by the bodies that set them.

Weekly payments, medical and treatment expenses, and what a claim covers: icare NSW, which administers the scheme for most employers, and the State Insurance Regulatory Authority, which regulates it.
How a dispute is lodged and how it is decided: the Personal Injury Commission, which publishes its own procedural directions, guidelines and dispute pathways.
The Acts and regulations themselves: the NSW legislation register for New South Wales law, and the Federal Register of Legislation for Commonwealth law.
Whether a solicitor holds a current practising certificate: the register of solicitors published by the Law Society of New South Wales.
Free legal information and referral: LawAccess NSW and Legal Aid NSW, and the list of services published by the NSW courts.

When a law practice becomes your lawyer, and when it does not

Reading this site does not create a lawyer and client relationship. Neither does sending an enquiry through the contact page, and neither does a reply to one.

That relationship begins when three separate things have happened: a practice has checked that it holds no conflict preventing it from acting for you, it has agreed to act, and you have accepted the written costs agreement it sends you. Until all three have happened you do not have a lawyer, whatever has been discussed in the meantime.

What a law practice must tell you about costs before it starts work is set by the Legal Profession Uniform Law, which applies in New South Wales through the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 (NSW). In the circumstances that law sets out it requires disclosure in writing, an estimate, and information about what you can do if you disagree with a bill. That is an obligation on the practice rather than a courtesy, and nothing published on this page satisfies it or replaces it.

Nothing on this site is an offer of a free consultation, a fixed fee or any other costs arrangement. Costs are a matter for a written agreement between you and the practice that acts for you, settled before work starts.

Costs in this scheme, and what this site will not tell you about them

Legal costs in the New South Wales workers compensation scheme are regulated rather than left to the market, and the arrangements are not the same as in ordinary litigation. This site publishes no figure for them and gives no quote.

Two things the Personal Injury Commission publishes are worth knowing before anyone assumes they cannot afford help. The Commission’s own dispute resolution services, including medical assessments, are free. The Commission also records that most parties in a workers compensation dispute are eligible for government-funded legal assistance through the Independent Legal Assistance and Review Service, which the Independent Review Office administers, and it publishes the contact details for it.

Whether that funding reaches your matter is a question for the Independent Review Office and for whichever practice you speak to. It is not a question this site can answer. Nothing here should be read as a promise that your costs will be funded, or as an estimate of what anything would cost if they are not.

You do not have to have a lawyer to lodge a dispute. The Commission accepts a party who represents themselves, and asks them to say so on the application. Free legal information and referral is available from LawAccess NSW and from Legal Aid NSW.

Who is behind this site, and how to check a lawyer

The law practice that will provide legal services through this site has not been published here yet. Until it is, this site names no firm, no solicitor, no office and no qualifications, and you should not assume a connection between it and any practice you may have heard of elsewhere.

When those details are confirmed they will appear in the footer of every page. Until then, read what is here as general information published by a site that has not yet told you who stands behind it, and weigh it accordingly.

Whoever you deal with, here or anywhere else, you can check them yourself. The Law Society of New South Wales publishes a directory of NSW practices and solicitors who hold a current practising certificate, searchable by name. It costs nothing. The Law Society notes that the details of some solicitors are not published there, and gives a registry contact for anyone you cannot find.

Complaints about a lawyer in New South Wales go to the Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner, which deals with complaints under the Legal Profession Uniform Law and the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 (NSW). A complaint has to be made or recorded in writing and has to identify the lawyer or law practice it is about. There are time limits, and the limit for a complaint about costs is shorter than the limit for a complaint about conduct. The Commissioner publishes both, and has a limited discretion to accept a complaint made outside them.

Until the providing practice is published here, nothing on this site should be read as a statement that a particular firm or lawyer acts for it.

What you send through this site

Keep an enquiry short to begin with. A few sentences about what happened, when it happened and what the insurer has said is enough. Please do not send medical records, imaging, scans of a claim file or anything else you would not want read by someone who turns out to be unable to act for you.

The reason is the conflict check. Until a practice has confirmed that it can act, whatever you send sits with people who may have to decline your matter, and material sent before a conflict check does not have the protection that material sent after one has. What happens to your information sets out what is collected, who sees it, and how to ask to see it or correct it. Personal information is handled under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles made under it.

Email and web forms are not as secure as people assume. Anything sent over the internet can be intercepted, misdirected or delayed, and this site cannot guarantee that a message sent through it arrives, arrives intact, or arrives in time to be useful. If something is urgent, or a date on one of your documents is close, do not rely on a form alone.

Nothing sent through this site stops a time limit running. Sending an enquiry is not making a claim, lodging a dispute, or answering an insurer.

Links to other sites, and the material on this one

This site links out to official sources: the NSW legislation register, the Federal Register of Legislation, the Personal Injury Commission, the State Insurance Regulatory Authority, icare NSW, the Law Society of New South Wales, the Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner, Legal Aid NSW, the NSW courts and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Those sites belong to other bodies. Their content, their availability and their accuracy are theirs, and a link from here is not an endorsement of anything beyond the page linked to.

Links move. Government sites are reorganised and pages are retired, and a link that worked when a page here was written may not work when you follow it. If one fails, search the body’s own site for the current page rather than trusting a copy of it somewhere else.

The text, layout and design of this site are protected by copyright under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). You may read these pages, print them, and keep a copy for your own use, and you may quote a short passage with an attribution and a link. You may not republish a page, sell it, or pass it into another site or service as though it were that service’s own material. Australian legislation, and the published material of courts, tribunals and government bodies, belongs to the bodies that publish it and carries their terms rather than these.

Availability, liability, and the law that applies

This site is provided as it is. It may be unavailable, it may be changed without notice, and pages may be added, amended or removed. No promise is made that it will be working when you need it, or that it is free of error.

To the extent the law allows, no liability is accepted for loss arising from use of this site or from reliance on anything published on it, including loss arising from a page that has fallen out of date. That limit does not touch rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law, which is a schedule to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). Where a right or guarantee under that law cannot be excluded, nothing on this page excludes it.

These terms can change. The version published on this page is the version that applies, and the date at the top of the page is the date it last changed. Using the site after a change means accepting the version published at that time.

These terms are governed by the law of New South Wales, and the courts of New South Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute about them.