Earlier this year the wording of the Statement of Truth as appended to statements of case, witness statements and other materials was overhauled. A new sentence was added. It reads: ‘I understand that proceedings for contempt of court may be brought against anyone who makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth.’
The undoubted intention was to flag up the adverse consequences of making false representations but will it make a blind bit of difference? The law reports are bursting with examples of people involved in litigation talking total tosh.
Implausible
In the recent case of RE MKG Convenience Ltd [2020] EWHC 547 (Ch) liquidators were in pursuit of the goods, takings and other assets which had vanished without a trace when a small chain of convenience stores folded. In particular, where had the money gone? Missing was a tad over £1.7m attributable to
