AN ABSOLUTE CAR CRASH OF AN APPEAL: KNOW WHAT DOCUMENTS WERE BEFORE THE THE JUDGE – A BASIC ISSUE FOR ALL WOULD BE APPELLANTS

Appeals are always difficult.  The appellate court has to be persuaded that the first-instance judge was "wrong", and this is a fairly rigorous test.  It is made far more difficult if the appellate court is given the wrong documents. Particularly when those documents are highly material to the centr...