Unassessability

I also admit to a certain suspicion of evaluations, partly out of ignorance of the techniques and the machinery involved, and partly out of a perverse pride in the slowly dying academic legend about the royal subjectivity and therefore unassessability of the English discipline—especially where writing is concerned.

Lord Denning MR had based his objections, in Courtney and Fairbairn Ltd v Tolaini Brothers (Hotels) Ltd, on the unassessability of damages.

The rationale for the rule excluding hearsay evidence—the unassessability of such evidence—also underlies Glithero J .'s ruling.