wanglepin wrote:One would have thought that if Tom Crawford was going to present and use as evidence Guy Taylors forensically examined fraudulent court stamps and documents as any type of defence that this he couldn't possibly do if these frauds are the subject of a ongoing Police Investigation. Which leads me to ask, what is Tom Crawford going to be producing for the court?
Whatever it is, it will not have the effect which Seedy Ceylon imagines. E&W Civil Procedure Rules do not welcome the sudden revelation of new evidence or arguments. If it wasn't disclosed in advance of the hearing, then there is a presumption that the other party can have an adjournment to consider it. Otherwise parties would have an incentive to keep their cards covered, and tie up the court's time with trump and counter-trump theatricals.
So when
Tom unveils Surprise Tactic #1147, the bank will pause for a moment to see if it can be easily discredited. If it cannot, they will ask for an adjournment and a wasted costs order against him.
Tom will proclaim this a famous victory, not stopping to think that it is being funded by deduction from his residual settlement after the house is sold. And then the legal process will continue, like the inexorable jaws of a vice.