A solicitor does not breach the duty of care owed to clients by advising that proceedings are arguable and proceeding with them, where the relevant area of law is genuinely uncertain and foreign authority supports the claim, even though the proceedings ultimately fail. The question whether private schools in Australia are obliged to afford procedural fairness before expulsion remains unsettled.
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