Product liability
Industry Commission inquiry report
Signed 18 / 07 / 1990
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- 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