Dover v. British Airways, PLC

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• holding that an appellate court is simply not as experienced nor as capable as the trial court at making credibility assessments or factual findings
• concluding that a trial court's fact-finding based solely on a video recording is disturbed only \when factual findings are so clearly mistaken-so wide of the mark-that the interests of justice demand intervention\
• instructing that appellate courts should not rely on video footage to overturn facts determined in the trial court unless the footage \clearly\ contradicts those A-3600-22 5 findings
• holding that \[w]hen more than one reasonable inference can be drawn from the review of\ documentary evidence, \then the one accepted by a trial court cannot be unreasonable\ and \the mere substitution of an appellate court's judgment for that of the trial court's advances no greater good.\
• holding \that a standard of deference to a trial court's factfindings . . . best advances the interests of justice in a judicial system that assigns different roles to trial courts and appellate courts\
• holding \that a standard of deference to a trial court's factfindings . . . best advances the interests of justice in a judicial system that assigns different roles to trial courts and appellate courts\

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