NO “VYING AND REVYING”: WITNESS STATEMENTS, EVIDENCE AND LOTS OF OTHER MATERIAL BESIDES: AFTER 287 YEARS OF JUDICIAL PROMPTING HAVE PRACTITIONERS GOT THE MESSAGE?

Anyone involved in civil litigation will spend a great deal of their time reading witness "evidence" which, in reality, is no such thing.  Witness statements tend to be seen as an opportunity to put forward opinions, submissions and innuendo. As HHJ Pearce recently observed the rules for drafting wi...