Briggs v Lunt [No 3]

• 1. Contract
  2. › Remuneration for services
  3. › Consultancy agreement
  4. › Whether documents validly executed
  5. › Whether findings about execution of documents were against the weight of the evidence
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Standard of appellate review
  3. › Findings of fact by trial judge
  4. › Whether findings against the weight of evidence
  5. › Whether findings were open on the evidence
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Trial
  3. › Duty of trial judge to determine all live issues
  4. › Pleaded defence not abandoned
  5. › Whether failure to address limitation defence constituted error of law
• 1. Interest
  2. › Pre-judgment interest
  3. › Supreme Court Act 1935 (WA), s 32
  4. › Date from which interest runs
  5. › Whether cause of action accrued on date of novation letter rather than date of underlying debt

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