Loss of immunity from suit is retrospective
Awoyomi v. Radford and Another
“The judicial decision that advocates did not have immunity from suit in acts concerned with the conduct of litigation had retrospective effect and advocates had ceased to enjoy immunity from suit by 1991.”
The Times, 23rd July 2007
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