PROVING THINGS 192: WHEN A WITNESS GIVES EVIDENCE OF MATTERS THAT TOOK PLACE 50 YEARS AGO: HOW THE JUDGE WEIGHS THE EVIDENCE

In Pinnegar v Kellogg International Corporation & Anor [2020] EWHC 3431 (QB)  HHJ Platts (sitting as a High Court judge) considered the weight to be given to evidence of matters that had happened some 50 years previously.  It shows that the utmost care has to be taken in preparing a witness stat...