X v Y - [2000] 2 NZLR 748

Practice and procedure — Pleadings — Allegations involving moral turpitude — Duty of counsel to ensure allegations substantiable.

Practice and procedure — Evidence — Claim for exemplary damages for professional negligence or misconduct — Failure to lead expert evidence as to professional standards, routines and instructions.

Practice and procedure — Costs — Costs against unsuccessful party's legal advisers — Whether application for order appropriate when specification made as to amount of costs which would have been awarded but for the provision of legal aid — Legal Services Act 1991, ss 86 and 87.