Maaz v Fullerton Property Pty Ltd

• 1. Evidence
  2. › Admissibility
  3. › Hearsay
  4. › Exceptions
  5. › Business records
  6. › Records of third party
  7. › Whether invoices and emails from subcontractors admissible as business records of recipient business
  8. › Whether document created by one business admissible as business record of another
  9. › Whether authentication requires production on subpoena or evidence of provenance
  10. › Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), ss 69, 183
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Admissibility
  3. › Business records
  4. › Discretionary exclusion
  5. › Whether third party business records should be excluded under s 135
  6. › Whether inability to cross-examine maker warrants exclusion
  7. › Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), ss 69, 135, 166, 167
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Weight
  3. › Business records
  4. › Standard of proof
  5. › Briginshaw standard
  6. › Whether business records of sufficient weight to establish deceit
  7. › Whether absence of evidence of provenance deprives records of weight
• 1. Torts
  2. › Deceit
  3. › False statutory declaration
  4. › Builder's director falsely declaring subcontractors paid
  5. › Loss suffered by principal
  6. › Whether loss limited by fixed price contract
  7. › Whether claim in tort controlled by terms of building contract

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