Established in November 1995. The Australasian College of Legal Medicine provides a network of doctors and dentist who have completed dual qualifications in law, and medicine or dentistry, or whose areas in practice are impacted on by the law and who have consequently elected to undertake internal College or external to gain at least a basic understanding of the law as it applies to their practices for the benefit of their parents. The aim is to provide the medical profession and the community with a better understanding of the legal implications involved in the practice of medicine, as well as to provide unique medical and legal insight into many medical issues not available to non-dually qualified doctors or lawyers. The term Legal Medicine represent four broad areas of medical practice; encapsulating the fields of Civil Legal Medicine, Criminal of Forensic Legal Medicine, Medical Ethics or Medical Practice areas affected statute law, such as the Health Insurance Act, Trade Practice Act, etc.