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WITNESS STATEMENTS DIRECT: MEMORY, GESTMIN £15 MILLION AND QUITE A LOT OF ALCOHOL: A HEADY BREW

WITNESS STATEMENTS DIRECT: MEMORY, GESTMIN £15 MILLION AND QUITE A LOT OF ALCOHOL: A HEADY BREW

July 27, 2017 · by gexall · in Civil evidence, Members Content, Witness statements

There is a certain appropriateness in one of the last major first-instance judgments of Mr Justice Leggatt being about witness credibility and the Gestmin criteria. In Blue -v- Ashley [2017] EWHC 1928 (Comm) Gestmin figured heavily. Everyone believed they were…

THE MITCHELL JUDGMENT 3: WHY MR MITCHELL WASN'T TELLING LIES AND P.C. ROWLAND WAS TELLING THE TRUTH

December 6, 2014 · by gexall · in Civil evidence, Civil Procedure, Members Content, Uncategorized, Witness statements

This blog has  looked at the fact finding process in the Mitchell judgment several times already.  Here I want to look at the issue of the “truth”. This is an issue that has wider implications for those involved in the…

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