Editing Champerty and maintenance (section)

===Australia===
In Australia, champerty and maintenance as common law [[cause of action|causes of action]] (as either a [[crime]] or a [[tort]]) have mostly been abolished by statute. 
In [[New South Wales]], champerty and maintenance were abolished by the Maintenance, Champerty and Barratry Abolition Act 1993.<ref name=austlii_NSWConsolidatedActs_MCaBAA1993>{{Cite web| url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/mcabaa1993408/| title=MAINTENANCE, CHAMPERTY AND BARRATRY ABOLITION ACT 1993| access-date=2008-12-22| publisher=austlii.edu.au [[Australasian Legal Information Institute]]| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531162057/http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/mcabaa1993408/| archive-date=31 May 2008| url-status=dead}}</ref> 
In [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], champerty and maintenance was abolished as a tort by section 32 of the Wrongs Act 1958,<ref name=auslii_VicConsolidatedActs_WrongsAct1958_s32>{{Cite web| url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/wa1958111/s32.html| title=WRONGS ACT 1958| access-date = 2008-12-22| publisher=austlii.edu.au [[Australasian Legal Information Institute]]}}</ref> and as a crime by section 332A of the [[Crimes Act 1958]].<ref name=auslii_VicConsolidatedActs_CrimesAct1958_s332A>{{Cite web| url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/ca195882/s322a.html| title=Crimes Act 1958 – SECT 322A| access-date = 2008-12-22| publisher=austlii.edu.au [[Australasian Legal Information Institute]]}}</ref>