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April 2020

Case note: Lewis v Australian Capital Territory [2020] HCA 26; 94 ALJR 740   The High Court has unanimously declined to award compensatory damages for false imprisonment where the imprisonment was inevitable notwithstanding the commission of the tort. The Court also refused to recognise a separate head of substantial ‘vindicatory’ damages. Edelman