Hastwell v Parmegiani

• 1. Appeal
  2. › Leave to appeal
  3. › Interlocutory decision
  4. › Principles governing grant of leave
  5. › Issues of principle and public importance
  6. › Novel issues raised
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 101(2)(e)
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Expert witness
  3. › Medicolegal report
  4. › Witness immunity
  5. › Out-of-court work by expert witness
  6. › Whether immunity extends to preparatory work where no proceedings commenced on basis of report
  7. › Relationship to advocates' immunity
  8. › Whether test for witness immunity same as for advocates' immunity
  9. › Whether finality of judgments is sole rationale
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Summary dismissal
  3. › Witness immunity as basis for summary judgment
  4. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 13.4

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