The Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 (PIPA) imposes restrictions on the advertising of personal injury services and was amended in June 2006 to give the Commissioner the jurisdiction to regulate personal injury advertising on internet website.

Subsequently the Commissioner published a Guide to Advertising Personal Injury Services and a Guide to Advertising Personal Injury Services on the Internet to assist practitioners to comply with their legislative obligations and also to set out the Commissioner’s approach to dealing with breaches.

The Commissioner has identified several problem areas with websites. As a result this tool has been created to assist practitioners to achieve a compliant website.

HOW TO USE THIS SITE

The tabs above provide links to examples of a compliant website and non-compliant website. Users can navigate between the example pages of each website by clicking on these tabs.

Within each example page, users can position their mouse over different sections of text to see commentary on why/how the material is either compliant or not compliant.

Users may also access a printable version of each example page with the commentary included.