PLEADING OF SIMILAR FACT EVIDENCE STRUCK OUT: YOU CAN’T MILK OTHER CASES…
In Peter Sharp & Son (a Firm) v GEA Farm Technologies (UK) Ltd [2022] EWHC 64 (Ch) Deputy Master Raeburn considered issues relating to “similar fact” evidence and made an order preventing a claimant from adducing evidence in relation to other…
SIMILAR FACT EVIDENCE: AN OVERVIEW AND THE CASES: THE RELEVANT GUIDANCE CONSIDERED
The previous post about the Court of Appeal decision today in relation to similar fact evidence provides an opportunity to recap on some basic principles. OVERVIEW OF THE RELEVANT PRINCIPLES A detailed review of the cases appears below. By…
PROVING PROPENSITY AND SIMILAR FACT EVIDENCE IN CIVIL CASES: COURT OF APPEAL JUDGMENT TODAY
In the judgment today in R v P (Children: Similar Fact Evidence) [2020] EWCA Civ 1088 the Court of Appeal set out the principles relating to similar fact evidence in civil and family cases. The case is also an example…
CORROBORATIVE WITNESSES : "SIMILAR FACT EVIDENCE" ALLOWED IN TEST CASE
We have already looked at the decision in Kimathi -v- Foreign & Commonwealth Office [2015]EWHC 3432 (QB) in relation to the issue of historians being called as witnesses. Here we look at the judgment in relation to corroborative/”similar fact” evidence. KEY…
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