August 6, 2003
Shonky Professionals
should pays consumers' losses
A community group spoke out today against moves to limit the responsibility
of professionals who blow consumers' savings by their shonky work. The
Civil Justice Foundation made the plea in advance of the insurance summit
to be attended by State attorneys-general in Adelaide tomorrow.
January 24, 2003
ACCC Chairman Allan
Fels honoured as Consumer Champion
The nation's foremost consumer advocate has
been named as the recipient of the Civil Justice Foundation's prestigious
'Foundation Award' for 2002. The award has
gone to Professor Allan Fels, for his unwavering perseverance and tenacity
at the helm of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
on behalf of consumers since 1995.
January 15, 2003
Insurance Industry
Enquiry Needed to Protect Consumers
Consumer bodies today called for a "full and independent"
enquiry into dirty tricks prevailing in the insurance industry and the
industry's own role in bringing about the Insurance Crisis, in the wake
of further scandalous revelations emanating from the HIH royal commission.
November 19, 2002
Advocacy Groups Rally
Against Insurance Campaign
The Civil
Justice Foundation today challenged doctors to see reason and abandon
their push to strip Queensland children of legal rights that will see
countless victims of medical incompetence bear the lifelong consequences
of their negligent doctoring.
November 15, 2002
Summit Told - "Don't Protect Lawyers From
Liability"
A community group spoke out today against moves to
limit the responsibility of lawyers and other professionals who blow
consumers' savings by their shonky legal work.
November 12, 2002
Beattie's Child
Laws Shameful
The UN convention recognises that the civil rights
of children are separate to those of their parents and that because
of their vulnerability, children must be given special legal protection.
Article 3 requires that the best interests of children must be the primary
consideration in the making of laws concerning them.
May 13th, 2002
Politician's
'courageous act' to protect injured workers
Liz Cunningham is awarded the inaugural Civil
Justice Foundation Award in a ceremony at Old Government House.
March 31, 2002
Call For
Independent Advisory Body On Judiciary
An independent judicial advisory body should
be established to monitor, advise and where necessary intervene in the
relationships between Federal and State governments and the judiciary,
according to the Civil Justice Foundation
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