BBC News NI Dublin reporter<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ireland’s Court of Appeal was told on Tuesday morning that McGregor had withdrawn an application to have new evidence entered at the appeal.<\/p>\n The proposed evidence was from a couple, Samantha O’Reilly and Steven Cummins, who are former neighbours of Nikita Hand.<\/p>\n A previous preliminary hearing was told that they claimed to have witnessed a row between Ms Hand and her former partner Stephen Redmond in December 2018.<\/p>\n The court heard McGregor believed the new evidence suggested that bruising on Nikita Hand’s body could have been caused by her former partner.<\/p>\n In an affidavit, Ms Hand had described the allegations as untrue and lies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A lawyer for Ms Hand said she had responded to the suggested new evidence by saying it was “all lies” and that had now been conceded.<\/p>\n He also said McGregor should be referred for “subornation of perjury”, meaning inducing people to commit perjury.<\/p>\n McGregor has also abandoned an application to introduce new evidence from the former state pathologist for Northern Ireland Prof Jack Crane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The appeal is based around several issues arising from the civil trial at Dublin’s High Court last year.<\/p>\n They include reference to the question “did Conor McGregor assault Nikita Hand?” being asked of the jury on the issue paper.<\/p>\n Conor McGregor’s legal team say it should have specified sexual assault.<\/p>\n However, a barrister for Ms Hand said “assault” covers a wide variety of assaults adding “what we were dealing with was assault by rape”.<\/p>\n He added the question put to the jury “was agreed and the jury could not have been confused by it”.<\/p>\n McGregor is also appealing an issue around the handling of his answers in interviews with garda\u00ed (Irish police officers).<\/p>\n His legal team explained that the jury heard McGregor gave about 100 “no comment” answers to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n His barrister said he had a right to silence in police interviews and it was “left hanging”, allowing the jury to draw an adverse inference.<\/p>\n Ms Hand’s legal team countered this argument by saying that if this was such a serious issue for McGregor at the time “surely an application to discharge the jury would have been made”.<\/p>\n Her barrister said such an application was not made.<\/p>\n McGregor’s legal appeal is also raising an issue about the judge’s charge to the jury during the civil trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"PA](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/3e9d\/live\/389948b0-ed24-11ef-a819-277e390a7a08.jpg.webp\")
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat is the basis for McGregor’s appeal? <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n