Victoria will have a new civil procedure act within 12 months, following recommendations by a committee of which Adjunct Professor Peter Cashman was part.

In an article in The Australian, the Attorney-General Robert Hulls confirnmed that the "overriding obligations" and codes of "sensible conduct", which Adjunct Professor Cashman pushed for, would be part of the new act.

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