1An alleged breach of a legal practitioner's professional or ethical obligations (including duties under the Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules and Land Title Act certification requirements) does not give rise to a freestanding civil cause of action for damages vested in an opposing litigant; such duties are owed to the court and enforceable through disciplinary processes, not private suits.
2Advocate's immunity applies equally where the claim is brought by an opposing party (not the advocate's own client), and extends to the preparation and filing of affidavits, decisions about what evidence to adduce, and submissions made in court — all being work intimately connected with the conduct of a case in court.
3Section 134 of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 (Cth) does not invalidate equitable interests arising from transactions that contravene the Act; accordingly, a plea that legal practitioners knew or ought to have known that a caveatable interest was legally incapable of existing due to a FATA contravention is untenable where existing case authority supports the contrary position.
