EM v KU [2024] NZDT 662 (15 September 2024) [pdf, 193 KB]
...that by the time those inspections were undertaken, it is more reasonable that BM (and EM’s partner KM who accompanied BM) were more likely directly relying on their inspection and observations of how the vehicle looked and performed, rather than directly on KU’s earlier statement; g. for the avoidance of doubt I also do not accept on these facts that the provision of an A/C belt by KU (which is now acknowledged to be of the wrong type) was a representa