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In Macteldir Pty Limited v Roskov [2007] FCAFC 49, the subject of the last post but one, the Full Federal Court explained the ambit of Order 62 rule 9 of the Federal Court Rules (which is reproduced in the previous post): ‘The Relevant Principles [56] The parties generally accepted as correct the statements of principle …
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In Macteldir Pty Limited v Roskov [2007] FCAFC 49, my old firm Middletons convinced a unanimous Full Federal Court to pronounce sternly that advocates’ immunity may not be circumvented by a client seeking to invoke the wasted costs jurisdiction of the Court against its own former lawyers, and to re-emphasise emphatically that the wasted costs …
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Update, 10 March 2009: See also these posts about Macteldir Pty Limited v Roskov [2007] FCAFC 49, and King v Stiefel [2023] EWHC 453, case note here. Update, 3 April 2009: It’s still going: Winn v GHB [2009] VSC 93. Original post: In Winn v GHB [2006] VSC 476, Winn won, another victory for a pro …
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