Cath Evans
Cath Evans
  Operations
    UK
      800 staff in 12 locations
      RJW tie up 18 months ago
    Australia
      1,500 staff
      Largest consumer law firm
  Her
    She is a Personal Injury Lawyer
    Was responsible for Government Relations in Australia
    Been in the UK for 14 months
  Oz lessons learned
    Common law rights defended
    Misinformation rejected and replied to
    Changes driven by the Insurance Companies
    2000-2002 the Insurance Companies created a "crisis"
    In 1974 NZ started doing away with Common Law
    They brought in a No Fault scheme which almost sank the economy
    Australia thought about bringing this in
    Were thinking of abolishing rights to claim for negligence
    There is patchwork of compensation rights.
No chance of uniformity as vested interests prevail.
    Advertising
      Different rules in each territory
      TV ads have to be tweaked for different states
    Law is different in many places
      8 motor vehicles
      27 accident schemes
      Lawyers have to retrain to move from
Melbourne to Sydney for example
    The media fed the frenzy with the worst cases
    The Insurance Companies drove the crisis even harder
    National Disability Insurance Scheme
      Pooled fund by the government
      Paid out to any disabled, irrespective of how
it was caused.
      30 pages into the 2nd volume, the Productivity Commission
recommended the abolishment of Common Law Rights by 2020
      No suggestion of how to administer the
scheme and cost of that infrastructure
  Courtesy of http://www.conscious.co.uk