WITNESS STATEMENTS “NOT IN MY STOCK IN TRADE”: HIGH COURT JUDGE HIGHLY CRITICAL OF ARGUMENTATIVE AND LARGELY IRRELEVANT WITNESS STATEMENTS

Last week I wrote about the report on witness evidence working group of the business and property courts.   That report commented that drafting witness statements (more accurately evidence in chief) was no longer part of a lawyer's "stock in trade".  Ignorance of, or a decision to ignore, the basic ...