Australia, June 30 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 29:
1. These proceedings are brought by Mr Tekin, a former client of a firm of solicitors. Mr Tekin alleges professional negligence and breach of other duties during a retainer which relevantly started in 2014. I will refer to the solicitors as the Firm. The Firm acted for Mr Tekin on a contract to sell development land and in the litigation against the purchaser which followed. It is a case where there is no dispute that some negligence occurred and no serious dispute that thereafter the Firm had a conflict of interest yet continued to act. The real issues in the proceedings are questions of causation of loss and receipt of monet...