Insurance Law

Contact: Mark Brookes and Tom Pepper, Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia)

The Full Federal Court of Australia has set aside a Federal Court decision¹ to summarily dismiss a claim made against a legal practitioner on the basis that it was an abuse of process, and that the practitioner’s conduct was exempt from liability due to advocate’s immunity.²

This case considered the doctrine of advocate’s immunity and its application to the different functions of an advocate.

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