Principle

APPELLATE PRACTICE – Concurrent Findings of Fact – Limited Grounds for Supreme Court Interference

Area of law
APPELLATE PRACTICE
Court
Supreme Court

The Supreme Court respects concurrent findings of fact by lower courts. Interference requires demonstration of perversity, lack of evidence support, wrong approach to evidence, or misapplication of law. Perversity means no reasonable tribunal could have reached that conclusion. The appellant bears a heavy burden. The…

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