Product Liability
Industry Commission Inquiry Report
The Industry Commission inquiry report, Product Liability, was signed on 18 July 1990.
CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Signing Page, Terms of Reference, Contents, Abbreviations, Overview
1 The Inquiry
1.1 The Commission's approach
2 The Basis for Product Liabiliy
2.1 Disabilities in Australia
3 The Current Regime and
3.1 Current product liability law
3.2 The ALRC's proposals
3.3 Summary
4 The Magnitude of the Efficiency Effects
4.1 Product-caused injuries in Australia
4.2 Overseas evidence
5 Adjustment Costs
6 Specific Effects of the Proposals
6.1 Effects on product characteristics
6.2 Overall effects on safety
6.3 Effects on international competitiveness
7 Equity Issues
8 Findings
APPENDICES
A Information sources
B Product liability theory
C Current laws and the proposals
D Product liability laws in other countries
E Measuring some effects of over-compensating consumers
F Alternative product liability schemes
References
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