Cappello v Lyons

• 1. Occupations
  2. › Legal practitioners
  3. › Professional negligence
  4. › Advocate's immunity
  5. › Whether advocate's immunity extends to drafting of pleadings
  6. › Whether advocate's immunity applies to omissions by a legal practitioner
  7. › Whether failure to plead a contractual defence attracted immunity
• 1. Contract
  2. › Building contracts
  3. › Progress payments
  4. › Non-compliance with contractual requirements for progress claims
  5. › Whether non-compliance with progress claim requirements disentitles builder to payment
  6. › Whether obligation to pay arises from payment clause or progress claim regime
  7. › Home Building Act 1989 (NSW), s 8A
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Onus of proof
  3. › Whether appellants discharged onus of proving non-compliance with contractual requirements
  4. › Effect of adverse credibility finding on discharge of onus

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