Egg on their Faces

• Those that have an interest in making the justice system inaccessible to consumers have for years circulated lawsuit myths with outlandish facts and absurd results for the purpose of discrediting it. [MORE]

Insurers' profits soar while taxpayers count the cost

• As predicted, restrictions on injury compensation payouts have delivered a huge boost in insurance company profits and a crisis in public hospitals that governments are finding impossible to fund.

  Accident victims used to be able to get private medical help paid for by the reckless person's insurance company. Now, private medical treatment is now denied to most accident victims. This is the result of Civil Liability laws that excuse law-breakers from responsibility. [MORE]

Truth the first casualty in insurance war

• The insurance industry and big business use many devices to increase profits and limit recompense to consumers.
  
  One of their most effective weapons are urban myths that they dress up as factual reports about huge and undeserving Court awards to maimed consumers. They post these myths to websites to cultivate their propaganda that the public is better off without a powerful justice system. [MORE]
  

No Foundation Award Was Presented For 2003

Prof Allan Fels receives the 2002 Foundation Award from CJF Director Roland Everingham

Foundation Award For 2002

• The 2002 award was 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. Professor Fels deserves the highest recognition for his outstanding achievements on behalf of all Australians in all areas under the Commission's jurisdiction during his 8 year term as ACCC Chairman. He is a supremely worthy recipient of this award and the directors of the Foundation are honoured to be in a position to recognise him on behalf of Australian consumers. Press release about this event

Civil Justice submission to Queensland Government urging abandonment of anti-citizen provisions of Civil Liability Bill 2002.

• The Foundation campaigns for a more efficient and equitable civil justice system, helping society to understand the individual's point of view. The Civil Justice Foundation made a submission to the Review of the Law of Negligence (Ipp Committee) and has made submissions to several major enquiries and bodies in relation to civil rights issues. [ MORE ]
  

Insurers Trump Consumers to Steal Rights...

• The establishment of the review of the Law of Negligence Committee in June 2002 has resulted in the dismantling of consumer protection laws in favour of big business and insurance companies.
  
  The anti-consumerist focus of these 'reforms' are the result of the review committee being told that insurance companies should be free to reap grossly increased insurance premiums while providing less to struggling Australians who deserve to be compensated for the unlawful acts of others. [ MORE ]

4th Annual Torts Essay Competition

• Each year the Foundation invites entries from undergraduate and post-graduate law/economics-law students Australia-wide in its Annual Torts Essay Competition. By posing topics relating to civil rights, it encourages students to contemplate the social development role of the law and of the courts in our society. In 2002 the prize was for the cash sum of $500 plus paid attendance at a leading residential national legal convention. The CJF is currently calling for entries to the 2003 Essay Competition.

Foundation Award Presentation

• Queensland State MP, Liz Cunningham, was recently honoured at a reception at Old Government House with the Inaugural Foundation Award. To find out more, see our media release section.