http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Lawyers predicting the future: disclosure in insurance contracts: CGU Insurance Ltd v Porthouse http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4874 Those who practice law professionally, especially as an advocate appearing before the court, can usually do so only if confident of their own abilities. But this case is a reminder that, as sure as one may be of the correctness of one's own view, it is unwise to exclude the possibility of error. The clause here required disclosure of a possibility (the High Court holds here, of the 'undemanding' nature of 'reasonably foreseeable' at common law, anything that is not 'far-fetched or fanciful'), and a possibility of not only a successful action, but merely an 'allegation'. Reasonable persons in the professional position of a barrister, the High Court tells us here, will be more than less expansive in the disclosure of such allegations when seeking insurance coverage. 2010-04-27T05:11:08.128Z ]]>