CIVIL PROCEDURE BACK TO BASICS 57: YOU CAN’T SUBMIT THAT A WITNESS IS LYING UNLESS YOU HAVE PUT THAT CASE TO THEM

A short, but fundamental, point about making submissions at the close of a case.  You cannot  generally make submissions that a witness  is lying unless that case has been put directly to that witness in cross-examination.

"It is a fundamental tenet of the adversarial procedure in  these courts tha...