Carers should also have right to action

PERSONAL injury litigation can seem hard-nosed at times. A living made from acting in cases of falls from ladders, car pile-ups and asbestosis is often cushioned by an earthy gallows humour.

Yet few counsels, or indeed the solicitors who instruct them, come lightly to such cases. The archaic choreography of advocates strolling up and down Parliament House as cases are settled or horns locked for litigation might mask the months of prepar...