THE RULES OF COURT DO NOT ALLOW A PARTY TO COMPEL ITS OPPONENT TO EXPLAIN HOW ERRORS WERE MADE IN WITNESS STATEMENTS:

Can the court compel a party to file a witness statement explaining, in detail, why mistakes were made in earlier witness statements? That was the issue considered in the case we are looking at today.  The judge considered the provisions of the rules in detail and the scope of CPR 3.1 (2) in particu...