This summary report outlines key themes and actions from the Professional Standards Councils’ Roundtable on professional standards schemes and indemnity insurance.

This review of sexual harassment as a potential cause of consumer harms in the legal profession was prepared to assist regulators in reducing and eliminating sexual harassment in all professions.

This report examines and evidences the benefits delivered by professional standards schemes, using quantitative and qualitative measures. The report shows that professional standards schemes help improve risk management in the professions, which is to the benefit of Australian consumers, scheme participants and insurers.

What is the value of professional associations to the good that professions do? And what do professional associations achieve that state regulation or leaving it to the market alone could not?’

The publication of this book marks the 21st anniversary of professional standards legislation in Australia and celebrates the contribution standards legislation has made to society.