Legal costs incurred in defending criminal proceedings arising from a wrongful arrest are not recoverable as damages in subsequent civil proceedings for wrongful arrest, whether on causation grounds (not a natural and probable consequence of the tort) or because the statutory regime for costs in criminal proceedings precludes recovery by 'sidewind' in civil proceedings.
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