Leave to appeal was granted on the question whether a trial judge errs in permitting a telecommunications officer to give evidence by reference to a statistical likelihood percentage (here, 95 percent) regarding the geographic location of a mobile phone, where the basis for the percentage was subsequently corrected and the witness accepted it had not been verified by a statistically significant test. The substantive merits were not determined at this stage.
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