Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002

For this part, each of the following is an allowable publication method for the publication of a statement by a practitioner or another person, whether or not the other person is acting for a law practice—

publication of the statement in a printed publication;

publication of the statement on an Internet website by means of the publication of an electronic version of a printed publication, but only if the statement merely reproduces a statement as published in that printed publication and the printed publication is published independently of the practitioner or a law practice of which the practitioner is a member;

publication of the statement on an Internet website by the publication of the contents of a directory or database that includes the statement and that is published or maintained independently of the practitioner or a law practice of which the practitioner is a member;

public exhibition of the statement in, on, over or under any building, vehicle or place or in the air in view of persons in or on any street or public place;

display of the statement on any printed document gratuitously sent or delivered to any person or thrown or left on premises occupied by any person or on any vehicle;

display of the statement on any printed document provided to a person as a receipt or record in relation to a transaction.

However, each of the following is not an allowable publication method for the publication of a statement by a practitioner or another person, whether or not the other person is acting for a law practice—

public exhibition of the statement in or on a hospital;

display of the statement on any printed document gratuitously sent or delivered to a hospital or left in a hospital or on any vehicle in the vicinity of a hospital.

A printed publication, directory or database is considered to be published or maintained independently of a practitioner or a law practice of which the practitioner is a member only if—

it is not published or maintained by the practitioner or an employee of the practitioner or a member or an employee of the law practice of which the practitioner is a member; and

the person who publishes or maintains it does so in the ordinary course of the conduct of the person’s business or affairs.