10 Mar 2014
HOUGHTON v SAUNDERS [2014] NZHC 423
- Citation
- (2014) 21 PRNZ 721
- Court
- High Court
The Court conducted a granular assessment of each challenged passage and witness: it rejected wholesale exclusion of the experts' briefs for containing submissions where the opinions were within their expertise and potentially helpful; it upheld specific hearsay exclusions where reliance was solely on third-party statements (eg Meredith on Mr Jim Smith citations) and excluded passages where opinion was speculative beyond witness foundation (eg Harrison last sentence of [73]) or where factual testimony lacked contemporaneous documentary support and would prejudice defendants (eg Lim's factual…