Obeid v Lockley

• 1. Torts
  2. › Misfeasance in public office
  3. › Elements of the tort
  4. › Public officer
  5. › Whether ICAC staff members designated as senior investigators held public office
  6. › Whether powers must be expressly attached to position held
  7. › Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988 (NSW), s 104(1)
• 1. Torts
  2. › Misfeasance in public office
  3. › Elements of the tort
  4. › Mental element
  5. › Awareness of or reckless indifference to harm
  6. › Whether reasonable foreseeability of harm sufficient
  7. › Whether test derived from intentional torts or negligence
  8. › Whether Lampard-Trevorrow correctly construed Mengel
• 1. Torts
  2. › Misfeasance in public office
  3. › Elements of the tort
  4. › Causation
  5. › Whether recording of documents on video caused reputational harm
  6. › Intervening acts of senior counsel assisting and ICAC
  7. › Whether causal chain established on balance of probabilities
• 1. Torts
  2. › Misfeasance in public office
  3. › Elements of the tort
  4. › Exercise of public power
  5. › Whether directing another person to record documents constitutes exercise of power

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