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Lawyers: professional indemnity requirements in Tasmania

Cover for legal liability arising from professional advice or services, written on a claims-made basis.

Data as at

Verified for Tasmania

  • Licence liability condition: Yes, and Tasmania spells out the mechanism. Section 45 requires that the prescribed authority "must not grant or renew a local practising certificate unless... the lawyer will... be covered by professional indemnity insurance that complies with this Act", and must impose a condition on the certificate to that effect. Section 46 makes failing to comply with that condition an offence. TAS · effective 2007-12-01 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licence evidence required: At grant and at renewal, with a seven-day notification duty if cover is going to lapse. The offence provision means a gap is not merely an administrative problem. TAS · effective 2007-12-01 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25
  • Licensing body: The legal profession regulator for the jurisdiction, under the Legal Profession Act 2007 (Tas). The credential is a local practising certificate, granted and renewed annually. TAS · effective 2007-12-01 Tasmania Government · 2026-08-25

What contracts commonly ask for

Principals and head contractors set their own insurance requirements, and those are frequently higher than a licence condition. The requirement that binds is the higher of the two, and both have to be read from the actual document.

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