Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person who vexatiously or without reasonable grounds gives a notice of claim of charge is liable to pay to a person prejudicially affected thereby such damages as the person sustains in consequence thereof.
(1A) Without limiting subsection (1), a person gives a notice of a claim of charge without reasonable grounds if the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the amount of the claim exceeds, to an unreasonable extent in the circumstances of the claim, the amount actually payable to the person.
(2) Damages pursuant to subsection (1) must be determined and fixed by the court on an application by the person prejudicially affected.