Individuals who contact a survivor of abuse or personal injury without their permission to encourage them to make a claim for compensation could face fines of up to $50,000 under new laws which have passed in South Australia.

The reforms, which passed last week, will ban the practice known as "claim farming", which is when an individual or business makes unsolicited contact with a victim who may have grounds for a civil injury claim in order to obtain their personal information and receive a benefit for referring them to a law firm to pursue compensation.

It follows recent calls for a nationwide ban on the practice, after many survivors of child sexual abuse told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that they had experienced being cold called by law f

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