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Lawyers’ Civil Procedure Act duty to correct opponents’ misapprehensions

June 27th, 2011 · No Comments

Tweet A judge of the Supreme Court of NSW has reiterated that litigation is not a game, and foreshadowed the possibility of a personal costs order against lawyers for a respondent who took improper advantage of their opponent’s ignorance of a provision in the Corporations Act, 2001. The provision terminates proceedings for winding up in [...]

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