This progress report provides an update on the project, drawing particularly upon the emerging themes identified during consultations with stakeholders during August and September 2017.

These themes generally reflect, and augment, the research findings in the project’s consultation papers. However, the emerging themes identified thus far are not exhaustive or final, and further distillation of key themes and prioritisation of recommendations is still required. In particular, the Law Council is considering how the material discussed in the project’s submissions aligns with the themes identified during consultations, and in its earlier research papers.

Together, these will inform its final report, to be released in 2018.