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Lay witness evidence
  • 26 Jan 2015

    LEUNG PIK WA v. POH PO LIAN AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    LEUNG PIK WA v. POH PO LIAN AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA681/2011

    The court held that the contested portions of the witness statement were primarily inadmissible opinion evidence because they constituted a forensic accounting analysis beyond the lay witness's expertise and were not the kind of opinion permitted by s58(2) Evidence Ordinance; only those passages that were factual and within the witness's personal knowledge as identified in the Scott Schedule were admitted, and passages that were repetitive or intertwined with impermissible opinion were excluded.