Principle

 APPELLATE PRACTICE — Discretion of Trial Judge — Exercise to Facilitate Hearing — Appellate Interference

Area of law
 APPELLATE PRACTICE
Court
Supreme Court

Trial judges have discretion to facilitate hearing. Appellate courts are slow to interfere with that discretion. Interference requires that the discretion was exercised on wrong principles or arbitrarily. The principle respects the trial judge's position. The appellate court will not substitute its own discretion. The…

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