abuse of process

• Litigation & law practice

  Just how ‘loyal’ must solicitors be? Appeal court decides

  After a solicitor’s role in a transaction has come to an end, “there is no continuing equitable or contractual duty of loyalty by the solicitor to a former client”, they held. To so act was not “a conflict of interest”.

  25 May 2014
• Litigation & law practice

  Bay of Pigs: Moti scandal disguises Australia shame

  Yesterday’s decision to trash the prosecution of a former Solomon Islands attorney general – though the end of a brutal four year battle for Julian Moti – may still prove an injustice by thwarting the full expose of the sordid…

  8 December 2011High Court

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