The authors offer their opinion on the limitations of written witness statements in international arbitration and propose video-recorded evidence as an alternative. In international arbitration, as in ...

Witness statements serve as the vessels of truth in litigation. Yet, whose truth do they really reflect? The entire purpose of Practice Direction 57AC (“PD57AC”), introduced in April of 2021, was to ...

Prior to April 2021, witness evidence within the Business and Property Courts (“B&PCs”) operated under Practice Direction 32 (“PD32”) of the Civil Procedure Rules. Unfortunately, this practice ...

Court cases can collapse due to unreliable witness statements. These are often taken some time after the crime has happened – but what if it was possible to take a witness statement very quickly using ...

A key witness's statement was changed at a meeting where he was not present, the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick on charges of misleading auditors has heard. The changes, ...

Lawyers in Australia’s biggest state New South Wales have been banned from using generative artificial intelligence to help prepare affidavits, witness statements and export reports to be put before ...

A key witness in the high-profile legal battle between Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and other celebrities against Associated Newspapers Limited has dramatically disavowed his earlier testimony, ...

A protected witness who implicated a 27-year-old Dublin man in a double murder retracted her statement as she feared he would… A protected witness who implicated a 27-year-old Dublin man in a double ...