Lucas v NRMA Insurance Ltd

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Costs against solicitors personally
  4. › Indemnity costs
  5. › Whether solicitors denied natural justice in costs application
  6. › Exclusion of affidavit evidence
  7. › Whether evidence constituted collateral attack on findings in substantive proceeding
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Natural justice
  3. › Right to adduce evidence
  4. › Costs application against solicitors
  5. › Whether exclusion of exculpatory evidence denied fair hearing
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Abuse of process
  3. › Collateral attack on earlier findings
  4. › Whether doctrine applies against non-parties to earlier proceeding
  5. › Whether intermediate findings may be challenged where ultimate findings accepted
• 1. Legal Profession
  2. › Solicitors
  3. › Costs orders against solicitors personally
  4. › Improper and unreasonable conduct
  5. › Preparation of false admission statements
  6. › Whether solicitor entitled to explain conduct
  7. › Whether interviewing prospective defendant inappropriate

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