Chain of Evidence in UK Law

  • Red 12 Trading Ltd v HM Revenue and Customs
    • Chancery Division
    • 20 October 2009
    ... ... The company at the end of the chain – E – will then export the goods to a purchaser in the EU. Exports are ... The tribunal accepted that this was evidence of two things: (a) that the goods had been imported from the EU; ... ...
  • HMRC v Livewire and Another
    • Chancery Division
    • 16 January 2009
    ... ... The ultimate exporter is labelled a “broker”. A chain of transactions in which one or more of the transactions is dishonest has ... depends a variety of decisions, including, by the parties, what evidence to call, how much effort and money it is appropriate to invest in the ... ...
  • R v Boardman
    • House of Lords
    • 13 November 1974
    ... ... Each boy gave evidence. In addition to giving evidence as to the occasion which was the subject ... helpful to remind oneself that what is not to be admitted is a chain of reasoning and not necessarily a state of facts. If the inadmissible ... ...
  • Knightley v Johns
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 1981
    ... ... by the surprising fact that not one of the four defendants gave evidence. Though rightly directing himself that he was therefore entitled to draw ... but neither's negligence unreasonable enough to break the chain of causation ... 15 But in fact there were before the judge, disclosed ... ...
  • Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 20 June 2002
    ... ... But there is no evidence of when and for how long and how frequently Mr Fox handled cargoes ... the court of a probability, not to demonstrate an irrefragable chain of causation, which in a case of dermatitis, in the present state of ... ...
  • Alphacell Ltd v Woodward
    • House of Lords
    • 03 May 1972
    ... ... two things— causing , which must involve some active operation or chain of operations involving as the result the pollution of the stream; ... The other pump was manually operated ... 13 Evidence was given by a consultant of the paper trade, a Mr. Evans, who had been ... ...
  • Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 February 1989
    ... ... a laurel hedge separating the plot from the garden of Croft Edge, a chain link fence and a privet hedge along the western boundary and a fence in ... Mr. Wherry, the District Surveyor at the time, said in evidence that, when making inspections during the 1960's, he used occasionally to ... ...
  • Hughes v Lord Advocate
    • House of Lords
    • 21 February 1963
    ... ... have been entitled to disregard them … In the light of the evidence, I cannot find that this danger ought reasonably to have been foreseen ... It was not merely an unpredictable incident in the kind of chain of events which might have been foreseen; it was an essential event ... ...
  • Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 March 2001
    ... ... plaintiffs? To that question, in the light of our analysis of the evidence, the answer is plainly 'No.'" ... 39 Counsel ... " For myself, I see nothing to criticise in this methodology or chain of reasoning. The critical matter is whether one agrees with his ... ...
  • McGhee v National Coal Board
    • House of Lords
    • 15 November 1972
    ... ... this contention fails; the pleading lacks specification and the evidence is much too vague to prove any breach of duty ... 4 The other ground of ... This is a case in which the actual chain of events in the man's body leading up to the injury is not clearly known ... ...
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