A party who fails to maintain an objection to the admissibility of expert evidence at trial, particularly where the underlying records are available in court and could be tendered, is precluded from raising that objection on appeal. The mere arithmetical difference between goodwill values at purchase and resale of a business does not, without more, establish that any loss of goodwill was caused by a breach of a restraint of trade covenant, where other factors could equally explain the diminution. The question whether a 10 kilometre restraint encompassing a regional centre is reasonable in the context of a small coastal business sale was a borderline question on which the Full Court was divided.
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