ANOTHER CASE WHERE A WITNESS STATEMENT WAS SERVED BUT THE WITNESS DID NOT ATTEND TRIAL: THE DEFENDANT HAD USED PARTS OF THE STATEMENT IN CROSS EXAMINATION – WHAT WAS ITS STATUS?
We are looking at another case where a party served a witness statement and yet the witness did not attend trial, the court only being told of this at the end of the trial itself. In this case the statement…
DISCOUNTS FOR MEMBERS ON THE CIVIL LITIGATION BRIEF SERIES OF WEBINARS: THE CODE
As promised in the previous post, here is the discount code for the Civil Litigation Brief series of webinars. The webinars include topics such as cost effective delegation, attendance notes, the liability of insurers to pay judgments, the joint expert…
MEMBER NEWS: DISCOUNTS FOR MEMBERS ON THE CIVIL LITIGATION BRIEF SERIES OF WEBINARS
There are a series of webinars coming up which cover many of the key aspects we look at on this site. Members who subscribe to the site can now obtain a discount on each of the webinars, with further discounts…
EXPERT WATCH 11: EXPERT ASSERTS THAT THE CLAIMANT WAS MALINGERING BUT WOULDN’T TELL THE COURT ABOUT THE DETAILS OF THE TESTS THAT LED TO THAT CONCLUSION
We have seen some unusual conduct of experts on this site. However the case we look at today has elements that we have not looked at before. An expert carried out tests on the claimant and, as a result of…
MY WITNESSES HAVE MADE STATEMENTS BUT WILL NOT ATTEND THE TRIAL: WHAT IS THE JUDGE GOING TO INFER? SECTION 2(4) OF THE CIVIL EVIDENCE ACT 1995 CONSIDERED
Here we are looking at a case where the claimant served witness statements that he said he was going to rely on. It only became apparent part way through the trial that the claimant was not, in fact, going to…
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