The Act creates a comprehensive statutory framework for civil liability—defining how negligence, causation, damages and apportionment are proved and applied across tort, contract and statute, and establishing special regimes for child‑abuse liability, offender‑damage trust funds, recreational activities, professionals, public authorities and proportionate...

Allows a claimant owed damages to sue the insured’s insurer directly for the amount the insurer would owe under the policy, but only with court leave; limitation periods mirror suits against the insured. Insurers are treated as the insured in proceedings and may raise any policy or legal defenses to resist leave or liability. Payments to claimants discharge...

This Act prescribes the legal framework courts must use in civil damage claims: tests for breach and causation, statutory presumptions (e.g. risk, intoxication), caps and formulas for heads of loss, an injury‑scale with ministerial dollar notices, structured settlements, protections for volunteers/food donors, proportionate liability for economic/property...

Rewrites civil‑liability rules: narrows negligence and causation tests, creates presumptive risk categories, caps certain damages, and restricts personal‑injury advertising and touting. It grants protections to health professionals, public bodies, good samaritans and school staff, sets special procedures for child‑sexual‑abuse and dust‑disease claims, and...

The Civil Liability Act 1936 (SA) consolidates South Australian tort law, setting who is liable for harm, how negligence and causation are proved, and how damages (including motor‑vehicle and non‑economic awards) are assessed and capped. It creates a distinct institutional child‑abuse regime—shifting evidentiary burdens, enabling recovery from...

The Act standardises how courts assess civil harm claims: it sets default rules on breach, causation and contributory fault, prescribes valuation mechanics (discount rate, caps and non‑economic loss thresholds), and creates targeted liability protections and duties (eg. for volunteers, good samaritans, food donors and organisations working with children)....

This law extinguishes certain civil liabilities arising from specified James Hardie corporate transactions and agreements, removing affected claims against named companies, their officers and agents and barring courts from hearing or enforcing those claims unless the Minister later revives them by Gazette order. Revival restarts limitation periods and can...

Section 3 removes civil liability for a State or local authority when the Cape Jaffa lighthouse platform is vested in it, for injury, loss or damage linked to a defect, failure to warn, or failure to take precautions. Section 2 defines the platform’s location and the authorities covered. The protection applies to those authorities under the stated...

What this Bill changes (mechanically) Creates a new rule in the Civil Liability Act 2002 that, for the purposes of child sexual abuse claims, treats a "religious practitioner" as if they were an employee of the religious institution (or the head of the institution if it was unincorporated) at the time the abuse occurred (see new section 15EA(3)). Defines...

What this Bill changes (mechanically) Inserts a new Division 3A into the Civil Liability Act 2003 that expands when an institution can be held vicariously liable (legally responsible for the acts of another) for child abuse. (see new sections 33IA–33IE). Broadens the class of people who count as “associated with an institution” to include anyone in a...

This Order sets the dollar caps courts must use for non‑economic loss (pain and suffering) under section 16(2) of the Civil Liability Act 2002, listing operative dates with corresponding maximum amounts. It commences on publication and repeals earlier Orders made under section 17. It affects injured claimants, defendants and insurers by limiting potential...

Replaces the Civil Liability Regulation 2019 and sets how the Civil Liability Act applies to particular bodies and claims. It explicitly prescribes non‑government schools and Water NSW as public authorities (s4), narrows how proportionate liability applies to pre‑2004 liabilities while allowing Part 4 for certain building/subdivision actions started from 1...

This regulation sets standardized ranges of injury severity values (ISVs) for many defined injuries and requires courts to consider those ranges when awarding general damages, with special rules for multiple injuries and caps (sch.2‑sec.2–4; sch.3). It also prescribes how permanent psychiatric impairment (PIRS) is calculated, reported by medical experts and...

These regulations specify that giving adrenaline to a person who is reasonably suspected to be having an anaphylactic reaction counts as “emergency medical assistance” under section 5AAA of the Civil Liability Act 2002, so the legal treatment in Part 1CA of the Act applies. It affects anyone who administers adrenaline in that situation. Regulation 3 takes...

These regulations set out how courts must calculate injury scale values (ISVs) for motor‑vehicle accident injuries by reference to the ranges in Schedule 1 and rules in the regulations; medical assessments by accredited health professionals are required before ISV determination (reg 4; Sch 1). They impose procedural duties and timelines for injured persons...

This regulation designates James Hardie Industries SE (ARBN 097 829 895) as the legal continuation of James Hardie Industries NV for the purposes of the James Hardie (Civil Liability) Act 2005. Mechanically, it updates which corporate entity the Act treats as ‘James Hardie Industries NV’. It affects the company and any parties engaged in civil liability...

This proclamation brings the Civil Liability Act 2002 into force on 1 January 2003. Made by the Governor with the Executive Council's advice under section 2, it was notified in the Gazette and is administered by the Department of Justice and Industrial Relations. Mechanically, it only fixes the Act's commencement date; it does not itself change substantive...

This proclamation fixes 1 March 2014 as the commencement day for all provisions of the Civil Liability Amendment Act 2013. The Governor of Tasmania, acting with the advice of the Executive Council under section 2 of that Act, made the proclamation and published it in the Gazette, so anyone subject to that Act must comply with its provisions from that date.

This proclamation fixes 1 June 2005 as the day the Civil Liability Amendment (Proportionate Liability) Act 2005 comes into force under section 2 of that Act. It therefore makes the Act’s legal rules applicable from that date to the persons and entities covered by the Act; the document is a procedural, executive step signed by the Governor, notified in the...

What this law does (plain English) Implements part of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (the Convention) so certain Convention articles are treated as Australian law (see s8). Makes the owners (and masters) of ships legally responsible for certain pollution related liabilities and sets rules about limiting that...

What this law does (mechanically) Implements parts of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage (the “Bunker Oil Convention”) so some of the Convention's provisions become Commonwealth law (see section 11). Makes shipowners (or masters) liable under the Convention for pollution damage from bunker oil and gives domestic...

These Regulations set out the practical steps, fees and court procedures for enforcing foreign judgments that award compensation for bunker‑oil pollution under the Bunker Oil Convention, and for issuing or renewing the ship insurance certificate required by the Act. They affect ship owners and insurers (certificate fees), foreign judgment creditors...

These Regulations set out the process for registering and enforcing foreign judgments for compensation for pollution damage from countries party to the Civil Liability Convention in Australian State and Territory Supreme Courts. They require certified judgments, affidavits (including translations where needed), conversion to Australian dollars, and a...

These regulations set the concrete rules under the Protection of the Sea (Civil Liability) Act 1981 for what counts as acceptable financial guarantees and insurance for ships, the information and amounts an insurance certificate must show, fees for issuing or renewing certificates, and which Authority officers handle applications. Ship owners, insurers,...

The Act caps the State’s total monetary liability at $1,000,000 for any and all causes of action connected to information or assistance given to Victoria Police by two named human sources. It makes the State (including Victoria Police and a broad range of public bodies) liable up to that cumulative cap, preserves court powers on costs and existing...

This law requires commercial passenger carriers to have acceptable insurance or equivalent financial arrangements so compensation for death or personal injury can be paid, and incorporates international air‑law treaties (including the Montreal Convention) into Australian law. CASA and courts enforce the rules, with criminal penalties for deliberate...

This Act makes specified Commonwealth carriers’‑liability rules and regulations apply to commercial passenger flights that begin and end within Western Australia by incorporating those Commonwealth provisions as State law. It fixes carriers’ legal liability and insurance related obligations for intrastate air travel and sets which law (Commonwealth or...