In a year of unprecedented law reform to Australia's injury compensation system, there was a widespread perception that the costs of insurance premiums were spiralling out of control. As a result, the Commonwealth Government appointed a panel to review the law of negligence in this country. This review, chaired by Justice David Ipp, put forward a series of recommendations on how reform, in this areas of the law, should be approached.

Subsequently, Ipp's recommendations were implemented and a piecemeal liability structure has been created throughout Australia. Several years on, judges from some of the country's highest courts, continue to express their unease over the reforms, which are believed to have gone further than the recommendations proposed by the panel.

Against this backdrop, Minter Ellison's Insurance & Corporate Risk practice has prepared the 7th edition of 'Tort law reform throughout Australia'. The publication reviews and compares legislative changes across the jurisdictions, as at June 2007. It also provides a brief commentary on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's findings into monitoring the costs and premiums in public liability and professional indemnity insurance.

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