Victorian Xray Group (Dandenong) Pty Ltd v Anthony Mark Malouf t/as Malouf Solicitors

• 1. Negligence
  2. › Professional negligence
  3. › Solicitors
  4. › Breach of duty
  5. › Whether solicitor should have advised proceedings were hopeless and doomed to fail
  6. › Whether solicitor should have advised appeal lacked any arguable basis
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), ss 5A, 5B
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Variation of costs order
  4. › Effect of grant of 'liberty to apply'
  5. › Time limit for application to vary final order
  6. › Whether order granting liberty to apply obviated need to file notice of motion within 14 days
  7. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 36.16
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Costs
  4. › Whether primary judge ought to have reserved the question of costs
  5. › Whether party denied opportunity to be heard on costs

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