Projects

The Attorney General has asked the Law Reform Commission to review the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) (ADA). The terms of reference set out the scope of the review.

Please visit our ADA review project page for further information.

• Serious road crime (2022-2025)
• Serious racial and religious vilification (2024 - 2024)
• Bail: Show cause offences and the unacceptable risk test (2022 - 2022)
• Open Justice: Court and tribunal information: access, disclosure and publication (2019 - 2022)
• Consent in relation to sexual offences (2018 - 2020)

• Access to digital records upon death or incapacity (2018 - 2019)
• Statutory provisions on dispute resolution (2013 - 2018)
• Review of the Guardianship Act 1987 (2015 - 2018)
• Laws relating to beneficiaries of trusts (2017 - 2018)
• Third party c​laims on insurance money​​​ (2016 - 2016)
• Parole (2013 - 2015)
• Encouraging appropriate early guilty pleas (2013 - 2014)
• Criminal appeals (2013 - 2014)
• Sentencing (2011 - 2013)
• People with cognitive and mental health impairments and the criminal justice system (2007 - 2013)
• Security for costs and associated costs orders (2009 - 2013)
• Jury directions in criminal trials (2007 - 2013)
• Bail (2011 - 2012)
• Penalty notice offences (2008 - 2012)
• Compensation to relatives (2010 - 2011)
• Cheating at gambling (2011 - 2011)
• Complicity in criminal cases (2007 - 2010)
• Family violence (2009 - 2010)
• Protecting privacy (2006 - 2010)
• Access to personal information (2008 - 2010)

• Uniform Succession Laws (1995 - 2009)
• Emergency medical care and the restricted right to practice (2008 - 2009)
• Workplace deaths (2008 - 2009)
• Young people and consent to health care (2002 - 2008)
• Sentencing people with cognitive or mental health impairments (2007)
• Review of s 32 of the Mental Health (Criminal Procedure) Act 1990 (2007)
• Jury service (2006 - 2007)
• Disputes in company title home units (2006 - 2007)
• Role of juries in sentencing (2005 - 2007)
• Jurors (2002 - 2006)
• Relationships and the law (1999 - 2006)
• Third Party Guarantees (1999 - 2006)
• Majority verdicts by juries (2004 - 2005)
• Expert witnesses (2004 - 2005)
• Review of the Evidence Act 1995 (2004 - 2005)
• Community Justice Centres (2002 - 2005)
• Surveillance (1996 - 2005)
• Time limits on loans payable on demand (2004 - 2004)
• Questioning of complainants by unrepresented accused in sexual offence trials (2002 - 2003)
• Apprehended violence orders (2002 - 2003)
• Contempt by Publication (1998 - 2003)
• Review of Sentencing Laws (1994 - 2003)
• Review of Part 10 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 (NSW) (2000 - 2001)
• The Rule in Pigot's Case (1998 - 2001)
• Review of the law of set-off (1997 - 2000)
• Review of the right to silence (1997 - 2000)

• Review of the Disability Services Act 1993 and the Community Services (Complaints, Appeals and Monitoring) Act 1993 (1998 - 1999)
• Review of section 316 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) (1997 - 1999)
• Review of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (1991 - 1999)
• Contribution Between Persons Liable for the Same Damage (1985 - 1999)
• Interlocutory procedures: discovery and interrogatories (1998)
• Review of section 409B of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) (1996 - 1998)
• Circulation of Legal Advice to Government (1996 - 1998)
• Neighbour and Neighbour Relations (1987 - 1998)
• Partial Defences to Murder: Provocation, Diminished Responsibility and Infanticide (1993 - 1997)
• Review of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 (1992 - 1997)
• The Right to Support from Adjoining Land (1991 - 1997)
• Directed Verdicts of Acquittal (1995 - 1996)
• People with an Intellectual Disability and the Criminal Justice System (1991 - 1996)
• Provisional Damages (1990 - 1996)
• Torrens Title: Compensation for Loss (1988 - 1996)
• Industrial Relations (1995)
• Defamation (1992-1995)
• Barristers’ Practising Certificates (1992-1994)
• Blasphemy (1991-1994)
• Unilateral Severance of Joint Tenancy (1990-1994)
• Common Law Crime (1991-1994)
• Scrutiny of the Legal Profession (1991-1993)
• Review of the Adoption Information Act 1990 (1991-1992)
• Personal Property Securities (1990-1992)
• Wills for Persons Lacking Will-Making Capacity (1987-1992)
• Environmental Law (1991)
• Alternative Dispute Resolution: Training and Accreditation of Mediators (1988-1991)
• Rule in Bain v Fothergill (1987-1990)
• Criminal Procedure (1982-1990)

• Informed Consent to Medical Treatment (1987-1989)
• Representations as to Credit (1986 -1989)
• Dividing Fences (1986 -1988)
• Disposal of Uncollected Goods (1986-1988)
• Jurisdiction of Local Courts over Foreign Land (1986-1988)
• Registration and Certification of Births and Deaths (1985 -1990)
• Liability for Dogs (1985 -1988)
• Artificial Conception (1983 -1988)
• Evidence (1966 -1988)
• Co-operative Law Reform Projects (Standing Reference) (1987)
• Liability of Highway Authorities for Non-repair (1985 -1987)
• Recovery of Payments Made Under Mistake of Law (1985-1987)
• Sale of Goods (1966 -1987)
• Limitation of Actions (1984 -1986)
• Wills: Execution and Revocation (1983 -1986)
• Attachment of Moneys Deposited with Building Societies and Credit Unions (1983 -1985)
• Employees’ Liability (1984)
• Conscientious Objection to Jury Service (1984)
• Passing of Risk Between Vendor and Purchaser of Land (1983 -1984)
• Recording of Court Proceedings (1982 -1984)
• Accident Compensation (1981-1984)
• Legal Profession (1976 -1984)
• Local Courts Act (1983)
• Service of Civil Process on Sunday (1982 -1983)
• Interest on Debts (1982 -1983)
• Insurance Contracts (1982 -1983)
• De Facto Relationships (1981-1983)
• Unincorporated Associations (1977-1982)

• Procedure (1973 -1978)
• Ethnic Groups (1978)
• Testator’s Family Maintenance (1966 -1977)
• Perpetuities and Accumulations (1973 -1976)
• Frustrated Contracts (1973 -1976)
• Arbitration of Civil Disputes (1971-1976)
• The Courts (1974 -1976)
• Sale of Land on Terms (1975)
• Persons Under Disability and the Management of their Affairs (1972 -1975)
• Supreme Court Act Review (1971-1975)
• Powers of Attorney (1971-1975)
• Coroners (1967-1975)
• Crown Proceedings (1967-1975)
• Limitation of Actions (1967-1975)
• Special Constables (1971-1974)
• Share Options (1972)
• Appeals in Administration (1966 -1972)
• Corporations (1971)
• Defamation (1966 -1971)
• Statute Law Revision (1966 -1971)
• Covenants in Restraint of Trade (1969 -1970)
• Liability for Animals (1967-1970)

• Infancy in relation to contracts and property (1966 -1969)
• Claims for Personal Injury (1966 -1969)
• Supreme Court Procedure (1966 -1969)
• Occupiers’ Liability (1967-1969)
• Covenants Affecting Land (1968)
• Contracts and the Conflict of Laws (1968)
• Mortgages of Personalty (1968)
• Options in Leases (1967-1968)
• Application of Imperial Acts (1966 -1967)
• Law of Contract (1966)
• Interpretation Act (1966)
• Legal Practitioners Act (1966)
• Habeas Corpus (1966)