APPEALS ON ISSUES OF FACT: SPECULATION AND "OPINION" EVIDENCE FROM WITNESSES IS TO NO AVAIL

In Macleod -v- the Commission of Police for the Metropolis [2015] EWCA Civ 688 the Court of Appeal set out the criteria for appealing findings of fact. Further the case highlights the important distinction between what witnesses saw and what they thought they saw. In particular "opinion" evidence fr...