Principle

APPELLATE PRACTICE — Concurrent Findings — Supreme Court Practice — Disturbance of Concurrent Findings

Area of law
APPELLATE PRACTICE
Court
Supreme Court

The Supreme Court's policy is to respect concurrent findings of fact. Interference requires perversity or substantial error causing miscarriage of justice. The appellant bears a heavy burden. Perversity means no reasonable tribunal could have reached that conclusion. Substantial error includes violation of law or procedure.…

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