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Evidence - From: 1991 To: 1991

This page lists 6 cases, and was prepared on 21 May 2019.

 
Browne v Perry [1991] WLR 1297
1991
PC
Lord Templeman
Land, Limitation, Evidence
Any acknowledgement of title must be in writing. Lord Templeman explained the rule against relience upon oral acknowledgements in adverse possession cases: "If an oral acknowledgment were allowed to constitute an interruption litigation would be encouraged and litigants would dispute what was said, by whom and to whom . . Once an acknowledgment has been reduced to writing, there is certainty about the words used and the court need only decide whether the words which have been written amount to an acknowledgment. There is no room for fraud, mistake or failure of memory. The written word speaks for itself."
Limitation Act 1980 S1
1 Citers



 
 Ventouris v Mountain; CA 1991 - [1991] 1 WLR 607; [1991] 3 All ER 472

 
 Regina v Inland Revenue Commissioners, Ex parte T C Coombs and Co; HL 1991 - [1991] 2 AC 283; [1991] 2 WLR 682; [1991] 3 All ER 623
 
The "Filiatra Legacy" [1991] 2 Lloyds Reports 337
1991

Mustill LJ
Evidence
The plaintiff had put in evidence under the Civil Evidence Act a statement by a surveyor that he had checked certain cargo tanks to ensure they were empty. At a late stage in the trial the plaintiff sought to say that he had not done so in direct contradiction to the evidence which they had called. Held: After considering how far the common law prohibited a party from asserting that evidence given in chief by a witness he has called is untruthful and the provisions of the Act, “In these circumstances we do not find in the case law or the legislation anything which requires us to hold that the judge had no power to treat the evidence of Captain Bellucci as otherwise than true; and not being so required, we are not ourselves willing to go so far. "

 
Re R (A Minor) (Expert's Evidence) [1991] 1 FLR 291
1991
FD

Children, Evidence
The court gave guidance on the principles to be followed by experts providing evidence in children cases.
1 Citers



 
 Hui Chi-ming v The Queen; PC 5-Aug-1991 - [1992] 1 AC 34; [1991] 3 All ER 897; [1991] 3 WLR 495; Gazette, 02 October 1992; [1991] UKPC 29; [1991] UKPC 29; (1991) 94 Cr App R 236
 
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