Vasta judgment prompts calls for judicial immunity legislation

Analysis 2023-09-01 5:31 pm By Sam Matthews | Melbourne

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Legal bodies have expressed alarm at the implications of a ruling that put a judge on the hook for damages for ordering the wrongful imprisonment of a Queensland man and have called for legislative action, but one expert says the judgment is unlikely to open the floodgates.

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