The eagerly awaited changes to the preparation of witness statements in court proceedings, designed to foster a necessary change of culture, and to modernise practice, are now only weeks away.

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 ...

The witness statement as we have known it has been an endangered species for some time. Procedural reform has been near inevitable, given increasingly vocal judicial criticism over the years of ...

Some legal cases are more interesting for what happens, or does not happen, during the proceedings than for the result. And sometimes it is a piece of evidence, or missing piece of evidence, which can ...

Prince Harry is among the group suing the publisher of the Daily Mail A private investigator whose alleged confession of hacking led to household names, including Prince Harry, suing the publisher of ...

Prince Harry's 55-page witness statement features a cast of Royal Family members, household associates and close friends. In his written statement, the duke says that "in every relationship that I've ...

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 ...

A private investigator whose alleged confession of hacking led to household names, including Prince Harry, suing the publisher of the Daily Mail has claimed his signature on the statement was forged, ...