'As soon as practicable'

It's a useful phrase. It doesn't mean I'll do it now and it doesn't mean I'm never going to do it. The beauty (and vice) lies in nobody knowing exactly what it means.In Legal Services Board v Werden [2011] VSC 74 the defendant, a solicitor who had ripped off his clients, successfully resisted an application …

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‘As soon as practicable’

It's a useful phrase. It doesn't mean I'll do it now and it doesn't mean I'm never going to do it. The beauty (and vice) lies in nobody knowing exactly what it means.In Legal Services Board v Werden [2011] VSC 74 the defendant, a solicitor who had ripped off his clients, successfully resisted an application …

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