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Wills: Documentary evidence trumps witness testimony
Oliver Auld and Lydia Kember examine the inherent unreliability of witness testimony based on memory Solicitors will now be under a personal obligation to avoid producing witness statements that are over-lawyered or in any way present a narrative which does not match the witness’s own recollection. There is an inherent difficulty that many challenges to …
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- Carmarthenshire County Council v Y [2017] EWFC 36
- Gestmin SGPS SA v Credit Suisse (UK) Ltd & anr [2013] EWHC 3560 (Comm)
- Lachaux v Lachaux [2017] EWHC 385 (Fam)
- Mattingley v Bugeja [2021] EWHC 3353 (Ch); [2022] WTLR 601 ChD
- St Clair v King & anr [2022] EWHC 40 (Ch); [2022] WTLR 703 ChD