J v Oyston: QBD 11 Dec 1998

Although a convicted person could not seek to retry his conviction in a civil court as plaintiff, that could not prevent him from doing so by way of fresh evidence where he was obliged to defend an action and where the evidence was genuinely new.

Citations:

Times 11-Dec-1998

Statutes:

Civil Evidence Act 1968 11

Natural Justice

Updated: 08 April 2022; Ref: scu.82451