Australia’s enactment of significant legislative curbs on liability claims has had the desired effect, according to coverage in the Sydney Morning Herald last year:Public liability and personal injury writs have nosedived and insurance premiums fallen…

For some years it looked as if the major English-speaking countries would inevitably see their legal systems “Americanize” in the direction of ever-wider litigation, but the trend may now be reversing itself. Not only has Australia enacted significant …