DRAWING ADVERSE INFERENCES WHEN WITNESSES ARE ABSENT: COURT OF APPEAL DECISION TODAY: COURT HAS A DISCRETION AS TO THE INFERENCES TO BE DRAWN

I am grateful to barrister  Luka Krsljanin for sending me a copy of hte Court of Appeal decision today in Manzi -v- King's College NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWCA Civ 1882. The Court rejected an argument that the trial judge erred in failing to draw adverse inferences when a witness was not called ...