Lord Halsbury said: ‘Where you are complaining of a non-direction of the Judge, or that he did not leave a question to the jury, if you had the opportunity of asking him to do it and you abstain from asking for it, no Court would ever have granted you a new trial.’
Judges:
Lord Halsbury
Citations:
[1897] AC 68
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Basham v Gregory and Little Brown and Co CA 2-Jul-1998
The defendant sought a retrial of his action for defamation.
Held: The judge’s directions on meaning as to the respective contentions was correct, and also the allocation of the burden of proof. Whilst the court had reservations about the . .
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Litigation Practice
Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.185252
