Fee Disclosure

This statement describes how we calculate our professional fees and your rights under the NSW Legal Profession Act (2004) (the Act).

GST

All amounts are GST exclusive unless otherwise stated. When the service provided is subject to GST, GST of 10% will be added and charged to you.

Costs – how calculated

Our costs include:

professional fees for the work you instruct us to do; and
the cost of expenses which we pay to others on your behalf (for example fees for searches, certificates and reports about the property)

For an itemised estimate of fees and expenses you will incur for your conveyancing please use our online quote.

For all other work please contact us for an itemised quote using our secure contact form or by calling 1800 LAWLAB (1800 529 522).

Fee Agreement

For all work where our professional fees exceed $750.00 we will send you a fee agreement to be signed by you in relation to the work we will do for you.

Your right to a bill of costs

You are entitled to a tax invoice from us.

We cannot take action for recovery of our fees and expenses until thirty 30 days after our tax invoice has been given to you.

Interest charged on unpaid costs

If our tax invoice is not paid within 30 days of receipt of the invoice by you we may charge you interest on the unpaid amount at the rate provided under the Act.

Billing arrangements

Contracts for sale: We will issue you a tax invoice containing information of lawlab’s professional fees and expenses, including GST on completion of the preparation of your sale contract. The sale contract will not be made available to you or your real estate agent until we have received confirmation that our tax invoice is paid. If you pay by cheque we will not issue the sale contract until cleared funds are available in our bank account. We suggest you pay your tax invoice online using our payment page with either your mastercard or visa to ensure access to your sale contract within 24 hours.
Conveyancing - selling: We will issue you a tax invoice containing information of lawlab’s professional fees and expenses, including GST, prior to settling your sale. We will normally adjust our invoiced fees and expenses on settlement with your approval via our settlement adjustment sheet. Our tax invoice must be paid prior to or on settlement of your sale. We do not accept payment of our tax invoice after settlement of your sale.
Conveyancing - buying: We will issue you a tax invoice containing information of lawlab’s professional fees and expenses, including GST, prior to settling your purchase. We will normally adjust our invoiced fees and expenses on settlement with your approval via our settlement adjustment sheet. Our tax invoice must be paid prior to or on settlement of your purchase. We do not accept payment of our tax invoice after settlement of your purchase.
Other work: In all other circumstances, we will send you a tax invoice containing information of lawlab’s professional fees and expenses, including GST, either after completion of the work, monthly, or at other times as agreed with you, when the work is in progress.

Right of review

You have the right to have our tax invoice assessed for its fairness and reasonableness by an assessor appointed by the Supreme Court, or to have a dispute about costs mediated.

Applications for assessment should be made to the Supreme Court within 60 days after the earliest in time of:

receipt of our tax invoice; or
the request by us for payment of our tax invoice, or
full payment of our tax invoice is made to us

Applicable law

The law of NSW applies to our tax invoice.

Refunds

We charge for all work performed unless otherwise stated.
We will refund monies to clients if such monies are over-paid to our account in error, for example, due to a processing error.
Refunds may be subject to verification of identity.
Direct account and credit card refunds are permitted where payment was made using the same account or credit card details.
Allow 30 days for refunds to be processed and deposited into the relevant account.