A document tendered as a business record under s 69 of the Evidence Act 1995 must identify the origin of its content sufficiently to show the representations were made by a person with personal knowledge or on the basis of information supplied by such a person; an accident report of unknown authorship does not satisfy this requirement. The concept of tendering evidence 'only against' one defendant has no foundation under the Evidence Act absent an express s 136 order. On negligence, a party conducting pressure testing of pipes breaches its duty of care by failing to physically inspect the danger zone immediately before testing commences, even where warning signage is said to have been erected.
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