A complaint to police by a crime victim, even one involving express or implied assertions of the accused's involvement in criminality, is insufficient without more to satisfy the 'actively instrumental' element of malicious prosecution. The Civil Procedure Act 2010 (Vic) does not confine a party resisting summary judgment to evidence held at the time the proceeding was commenced or at the scheduled hearing date.
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