NSW Caselaw
[2000] 36 ACSR 462 Reported Decision : [2001] 19 ACLC 1 [2001] Aust Torts Reports 81-588
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION : HEYDON v NRMA LTD & ORS; BATEMAN & ORS v NRMA LTD & ORS; MORGAN & ORS v NRMA LTD & ORS [2000] NSWCA 374 revised - 1/02/2001 FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40587/99; 40644/99; 40647/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 15-26 May 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 21 December 2000
PARTIES : JOHN DYSON HEYDON v NRMA LTD & ORS; GREGORY THOMAS BATEMAN & ORS (T/A ABBOTT TOUT) v NRMA LTD & ORS; JOHN KERIN MORGAN & ORS (T/A ALLEN ALLEN & HEMSLEY) v NRMA LTD & ORS JUDGMENT OF : Malcolm AJA at 1; McPherson AJA at 360; Ormiston AJA at 455
LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Supreme Court LOWER COURT Comm D 50257/95 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT Giles J JUDICIAL OFFICER :
T F Bathurst QC/A J Meagher SC/J T Gleeson (Heydon) COUNSEL : R J Ellicott QC/ G K Burton (Bateman & Ors T/A Abbott Tout) B C Oslington QC/M R Speakman (Morgan & Ors T/A Allen Allen & Hemsley) J L Sher QC/ R C McDougall QC/ N J O'Bryan, P T Nugent (NRMA LTD, NRMA INSURANCE LTD, NRMA HOLDINGS LTD) Corrs Chambers Westgarth (Heydon) SOLICITORS : Ebsworth & Ebsworth (Abbott Tout) Blake Dawson Waldron (Allen Allen & Hemsley) Norton White (NRMA Ltd, NRMA Insurance Ltd, NRMA Holdings Ltd) CATCHWORDS : Negligence - professional negligence - barrister - solicitor - solicitor's duty to client based on contract - demutualisation of NRMA - whether involved expropriation or oppression - alteration of articles of association - "benefit of the company as a whole" - whether decision in Gambotto v WCP Ltd (1995) 183 CLR 432 was reasonably foreseeable - whether lawyers' duty of care extended to possible change of law in High Court appeal - standard of care for leader of profession - duty of care in advice as to law when special leave to appeal has been granted - expert evidence in professional negligence cases - whether prospectus misleading or deceptive - "free shares". D DECISION : See Summary pp5-6
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