PROVING THINGS 241: “WHICH WITNESS’S ACCOUNT IS PREFERRED?”: CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCE IS BEST

In Gadsby v Hayes [2024] EWHC 2142 (KB) Ms Clare Ambrose (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) considered the evidence of witnesses in a case where the accident had happened ten years previously.  The accounts given near the time of the event carried more weight. As a result the claimant's case fai...