The question of whether advocate's immunity applies to a negligence claim against solicitors for advice on settlement terms ordinarily cannot be determined as a separate question without full findings of negligence at trial. A preliminary view that immunity applies is insufficient to finally dispose of the question on a hypothetical basis. Where a client consents to judgment on terms that exceed their actual liability, the claim that the judgment was wrong engages the principle of finality underlying advocate's immunity, even where the excess liability was arguably never in issue in the original proceedings.
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