Browne v Dunn Rears Its Head Against this, the defendant’s case suffered from a tendency to attempt to produce inadmissible hearsay, and contravention of the ancient tripwire Browne v Dunn, a case from 1893 that requires litigants to put statements of fact to opposing witnesses in cross-examination if the litigant later intends to claim that the statement of fact contradicts the testimony of the opposing witness. [read post]