Each month Andrew Yuile provides brief summaries of recent decisions handed down by the High Court for the Victorian Law Institute Journal. This month he covers decisions handed down in May 2016, including Attwells v Jackson Lalic Lawyers (advocate’s immunity), Nguyen v The Queen (sentencing and the De Simoni principles), Badenach v Calvert (solicitor’s duty of care when preparing a will), and Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission v May(meaning of “injury” in the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (Cth)). This summary also appears in the Law Institute Journal (July 2016), Vol 90 Issue 7.
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