Kumar v Bathini

• 1. Appeal
  2. › Standard of appellate review
  3. › Credit-based findings of fact
  4. › Whether findings glaringly improbable or contrary to compelling inferences
  5. › Whether trial judge failed to adopt cautious approach
• 1. Consumer Law
  2. › Misleading or deceptive conduct
  3. › Oral representations
  4. › Cautious approach to oral evidence of representations
  5. › Whether representation made
  6. › Whether reliance established
  7. › Fair Trading Act 1999 (Vic)
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Failure to call witness
  3. › Jones v Dunkel inference
  4. › Whether satisfactory explanation given for failure to call witness
  5. › Whether inference properly drawn
• 1. Contract
  2. › Effect of signature
  3. › Whether party bound by contents of document referred to in signed contract
  4. › Whether vitiating element of misrepresentation negates constructive notice

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