“A MARKED ‘DISCONNECT’ BETWEEN THE RESPONDENT’S WRITTEN EVIDENCE AND HIS ORAL TESTIMONY”: ANOTHER “ARGUMENTATIVE” WITNESS STATEMENT BITES THE DUST

The judgment of ICC Judge Barber in Leopard v Robinson [2020] EWHC 2928 (Ch) provides another example of a written witness statement being misused. The judge held that the statement consisted of "assertions and legal submissions". These have no place in a witness statement and the respondent could n...