Catchwords:

EVIDENCE — appellate review of witness evidence — competing accounts of central factual issue — whether primary judge’s findings were most likely affected by impressions about the credibility and reliability of the witnesses — advantage of primary judge in seeing and hearing the witnesses give evidence — whether primary judge’s findings also informed by assessment of evidence as a whole including plausibility of the accounts of various witnesses having regard to documentary evidence — whether primary judge’s findings were glaringly improbable or contrary to compelling inferences

EQUITY — appeals — fiduciary duties — where parties were equal shareholders in freight company — where labour divided between shareholder companies — whether parties relationship gave rise to fiduciary duty — whether appellants placed trust and confidence in respondents not to act to their detriment — whether fiduciary duty breached