OVERTURNING FINDING OF FACTS ON APPEAL: FINDINGS OF ABSENCE OF DISHONESTY OVERTURNED BY THE PRIVY COUNCIL

The judgment of the Privy Council in Central Bank of Ecuador and others v Conticorp SA and others [2015] UKPC 11;  [2015] WLR (D)  150 is quite extraordinary. It involved the Privy Council overturning a finding of  fact of the judge at first instance that there was no fraud on the part of the defend...