USING THE CONTENTS OF A WITNESS STATEMENT FOR A COLLATERAL PURPOSE: CONTEMPT OF COURT AND COSTS: A HEADY MIXTURE HERE.
We are revisiting a case we looked at previously in relation to costs orders being made against a Litigant in Person. One specific aspect of that judgment considered the costs of an application for contempt of court that the claimant…
LYING IN A WITNESS STATEMENTS PASSES THE CUSTODY THRESHOLD: WHEN A PARTY ASSERTED THEY DID NOT KNOW A WITNESS
In Axa Insurance UK Plc v Reid (Rev 1) [2021] EWHC 993 (QB) Mrs Justice Eady found that telling lies in a witness statement in a personal injury case passed the custody threshold. A claimant in a personal injury, who…
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