General Purpose Standing Committee No.1 of the Legislative Council of New South Wales re the Inquiry into Personal Injuries Compensation Legislation.

Recent submissions (and supplementary submissions) prepared by the legal profession seeking reforms to various personal injury compensation legislation can be viewed from the links opposite.  These submissions were prepared specifically for consideration by the General Purpose Standing Committee No.1 of the Legislative Council of New South Wales as part of its 'Inquiry into personal injury compensation legislation'. 

Read the Bar Association's submission to the committee

Response to the report

The General Purpose Standing Committee released its report on 8 December 2005.  The legal profession welcomed the committee's findings which were broadly consistent with the profession's position outlined in its submissions.  The report represents a well reasoned response to community calls for re-adjustment to the various enactments made throughout 1999-2002.  The committee found that with hindsight the reforms went too far and that 'under the current law in New South Wales, injured individuals are in some instances limited in their access to compensation where community standards would suggest that they deserve greater recompense'.