Hearsay Evidence in UK Law
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Full And Frank Disclosure Obligation Breached But Injunction Upheld
In JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank & anr v Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev [2014] EWHC 4336 (Ch), 19 December 2014, Mann J refused to discharge a GBP 1.2 billion worldwide freezing injunction des...... ... would still have been granted due to the weight of other evidence ... The context of this claim is the collapse of a Russian bank (the ... statement submitted by the claimants' solicitor contained a lot of hearsay evidence and did not identify the sources of this hearsay evidence; and ... ...
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(Re)Insurance Weekly Update 32 - 2015
... ... A statement from a foreign witness that is hearsay can be admitted and read at court by means of a hearsay notice. If one ty puts in hearsay evidence of a statement then, with the court's permission, the other party can call ... ...
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Evidence ' The Basis Of Admissibility
... ... The rules of evidence have become gradually more relaxed over ... the decades. Complex rules such as the hearsay rule and its even ... more complicated exceptions are no longer directly applicable in ... the context of Fitness to Practise hearings. The general ... ...
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High Court Orders Witness Statements To Be Redrafted Due To Serious Non-compliance With PD 57AC
... ... and gave the claimant just under a week to redraft the evidence so ... as to comply with the PD: Greencastle MM LLP v Payne ... [2022] ... own knowledge (including correctly identified hearsay evidence) ... While each case will turn on its facts, the decision ... ...
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High Court Orders Witness Statements To Be Redrafted Due To Serious Non-compliance With PD 57AC
... ... and gave the claimant just under a week to redraft the evidence so ... as to comply with the PD: Greencastle MM LLP v Payne ... [2022] ... own knowledge (including correctly identified hearsay evidence) ... While each case will turn on its facts, the decision ... ...
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Fair corporate criminal liability trial despite absence of company’s directing mind
The Court of Appeal has refused to grant a company leave to appeal its conviction for conspiracy to corrupt, notwithstanding that the directors who constituted the company's directing mind were not...... ... mind were not present at the trial and did not give oral evidence: Regina v Alstom Network UK Ltd [2019] EWCA Crim 1318 ... Alstom Network ... Hearsay evidence from these two directors had however been admitted in evidence ... ...
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Prince Andrew ' Obtaining Evidence Abroad
... ... events are alleged to have taken place, and those potential ... witnesses could only furnish hearsay evidence, such requests may ... also be found by the Australian Court to be irrelevant and ... oppressive ... The weight of any such evidence is ... ...
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Prince Andrew ' Obtaining Evidence Abroad
... ... events are alleged to have taken place, and those potential ... witnesses could only furnish hearsay evidence, such requests may ... also be found by the Australian Court to be irrelevant and ... oppressive ... The weight of any such evidence is ... ...
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Employment Briefing - August 2011
... ... The majority found that there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate that the ISA would be 'profoundly' influenced by the ... Hearsay evidence not admissible ... The Administrative Court has held to be ... ...
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Absent Witnesses - Al-Khawaja Revisited
... ... framework for the consideration of when it will be unfair to admit hearsay evidence in a criminal trial ... Under consideration were the ... ...
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