Catchwords:

APPEALS – from findings of fact – primary judge assessed credibility and reliability of two witnesses – findings not expressed to be based on demeanour – applicable test for appellate intervention – whether primary judge gave sufficient weight to combined effect of relevant circumstances

EVIDENCE – tendency evidence – whether evidence relating to a separate building project was significantly probative of the issue concerning the alleged builder’s role in the building project the subject of the proceedings – s 97 of the Evidence Act considered

EVIDENCE – whether the primary judge erroneously failed to draw a Jones v Dunkel inference

CONSUMER LAW – misleading and deceptive conduct – causation – whether, absent the misleading and deceptive conduct, the property developer would have obtained a valid contract of insurance by honest means