Legal Ethics

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A-G (NT) v Kearney (1985) 158 CLR 500

Akki v Martin Hall Pty Ltd v Anor (1994) 35 NSWLR 470

Allinson v General Council of Medical Education and Registration [1894] 1 QB 750

Amev-U D C Finance v Artes Studios Thoroughbreds (1988) 13 NSWLR 486

Attorney-General for State of Queensland v Colin Lovitt QC [2003] QSC 279

Baker v Campbell (1983) 153 CLR 52

Bridges v Law Society of New South Wales [1983] 2 NSWLR 361

Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336

Bryson v New South Wales Bar Association (LSD] [2003] NSWADTAP 29

Chamberlain v ACT Law Society (1993) 118 ALR 54

Chamberlains v Lai [2006] NZSC 70

Clyne v The New South Wales Bar Association (1960) 104 CLR 186

Coe v New South Wales Bar Association [2000] NSWCA 13

Council of the New South Wales Bar Association v Costigan [2013] NSWCA 407

Council of the New South Wales Bar Association v Raphael [2007] NSWADT 201

Council of The NSW Bar Association v Davison [2006] NSWSC 699

Council of the Queensland Law Society Inc v Roche [2004] 2 Qd R 574; [2003] QCA 469

Day v Perisher Blue Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 110

Degiorgio v. Dunn (No. 2) (2005) 62 NSWLR 284

D’Orta-Ekenaike v Victorian Legal Aid [2005] HCA

Esso Australia Resources Limited v The Commissioner of Taxation [1999] HCA 67

Ex Parte Bellanto: re Prior [1963] NSWR 1556

Ex Parte Lenehan (1948) 77 CLR 403

Farrow Mortgage Services Pty Ltd (in liqu) v Webb 39 NSWLR 601

Field v Commissioner for Railways for New South Wales (1957) 99 CLR 285

Flower & Hart (a firm) v White Industries (Qld) Pty Ltd (1999) 87 FCR 134

Giannarelli v Wraith (1988) 165 CLR 543

Harvey v Law Society of New South Wales (1975) 7 ALR 227

Harvey v Phillips (1956) 95 CLR 235

Hatty v Pilkinton (No 2) (1992) 35 FCR 433

Hawkins v Clayton (1988) 164 CLR 539

Hill v Van Erp (1997) 71 ALJR 487

Hunter v R (1999) 105 A Crim R 223

Keefe v Marks (1989) 16 NSWLR 713

Kelly v London Transport Executive [1982] 2 All ER 842

Kennedy v The Council of the Incorporated Law Institute of New South Wales (1939) 13 ALJ 563

Law Society of New South Wales v Bannister (1993) 4 LPDR 24

Law Society of New South Wales v Bolster

Law Society of New South Wales v Foreman (1994) 34 NSWLR 408

Law Society of New South Wales v Hinde [2005] NSWADT 199

Law Society of New South Wales v Moulton [1981] 2 NSWLR 736

Law Society of New South Wales v Walsh Unrep Dec 97

Law Society of New South Wales v Weaver [1994] 1 NSWLR 271

Leary v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1980) 32 ALR 221

Lemoto v Able Technical Pty Limited (2005) 63 NSWLR 300

Lemoto v Able Technical Pty Limited (2005) 63 NSWLR 300

Lewis v His Honour Judge Ogden (1984) 153 CLR 682

Malfanti LPDR 4 of 1993

Mallesons Stephen Jaques v KPMG Marwick (1990) 4 WAR 357

Mechanical and General Inventions Co v Austin [1935] AC 346

Meek v Fleming [1961] 2QB 366

Murphy v Bar Association of NSW [2001] NSWSC 1191

Myers v Elman [1940] AC 282

Nangus v Charles Donovan [1989] VR 184

New South Wales Bar Association v Cummins (2001) 52 NSWLR 279

New South Wales Bar Association v Evatt [1968] HCA 20; (1968) 117 CLR 177

New South Wales Bar Association v Hamman [1999] NSWCA 404

New South Wales Bar Association v Harrison LPDR 6 of 1997

New South Wales Bar Association v Howen [2008] NSWADT 147

New South Wales Bar Association v Jobson [2002] NSWADT 171

New South Wales Bar Association v Livesey [1982] 2 NSWLR 231

New South Wales Bar Association v Moore (Court of Appeal, 2.11.1993, unreported)

New South Wales Bar Association v Murphy (2002) 55 NSWLR 23; NSWCA 138

New South Wales Bar Association v Punch [2008] NSWADT 78

New South Wales Bar Association v Thomas (No 2) [1989] 18 NSWLR 193

New South Wales Bar Association v Thomas [2002] NSWADT 195

Newman v Phillips Fox [1999] WASC 171; 21 WAR 309

Nickmar v Preservatrice Skandia Insurance (1985) 3 NSWLR 44

NSW Bar Association v Somosi [2001] NSWSC 285

O'Donovan v Vereker; O'Donovan v Forsyth (1987) 76 ALR 97

Prince Jefri Bolkiah v KPMG [1999] 2 WLR 215

Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales v Costello [1984] 3 NSWLR 201

Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales v McCaffery [2004] NSWCA 470

Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales v Pangallo (1993) 67 A Crim R

Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of NSW v P [2003] NSWCA 320

Qidwai v Brown [1984] 1 NSWLR 100

R v Apostilides (1984) 15 A Crim R 88

R v Bathgate (1946) 46 SR (NSW) 281

R v Birks (1990) 19 NSWLR 677

R v Deriz (1999) 109 A Crim R 329

R v Glover (1987) 46 SASR 310

R v Lucas [1973] VR 693

R v McIntyre (2000) 111 A Crim R 211

R v Meier (1982) 30 SASR 126

R v MG (2007) 69 NSWLR 20

R v Pernich (1991) 55 A Crim R 464

Re B (1981) 2 NSWLR 372

Re Davis (1947) 75 CLR 409

Re Evatt: ex parte New South Wales Bar Association [1967] SR (NSW) 236

Re Gruzman; ex parte the Prothonotary (1968) 70 SR (NSW) 316

Re H [1981] 3 All ER 205

Re Hodgekiss [1962] SR (NSW) 340

Re Mayes and the Legal Practitioners Act (1974) 1 NSWLR 19

Re Templeton [1981] 1 NSWLR 1

Re Veron: ex parte Law Society of New South Wales (1966) 84 WN (Pt 2) (NSW)

Rees v Sinclair [1974] 1 NZLR 180

Richardson v R (1974) 131 CLR 116

Rondel v Worsley [1967] 3 ALL ER 993

Ross v Caunters (1979) 3 All ER 580

Saif Ali v Sydney Mitchell and Co [1978] 1 QB 95; [1980] AC 198

Saragas v Martinis [1976] 1 NSWLR 172

Sevic v Roarty (1998) 44 NSWLR 287

Smout v Smout [1989] VR 845

Stewart v Strevens (1976) 2 NSWLR 321

Swinfen v Lord Chelmsford (1860) 157 ER 1436

Tombling v Universal Bulb Co [1951] 2TLR 289

Tuckiar v R (1934) 52 CLR 335

Vella v R (1990) 2 WAR 537; (1990) 47 A Crim R 119

Wardell v New South Wales Bar Association (2002) 50 ATR 302; [2002] NSWSC 548

Waterford v The Commonwealth (1987) 61 ALJR 674

Weaver v Law Society of New South Wales (1979) 142 CLR 201

Wentworth v New South Wales Bar Association (1992) 176 CLR 239

Whitehorn v R (1983) 152 CLR 657

Whitehouse v Jordan [1981] 1 All ER 267

Yates Property Corp v Boland (1999) 167 ALR 575

Zanatta v McLeary [1976] 1 NSWLR 230

Ziems v The Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1957) 97 CLR 279