Is there any case law or case law in which the trial judge’s decision to accept or reject the evidence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Parchment, 2015 BCCA 417 (CanLII):
I would not accede to this submission. It is in the trial judge’s province to determine which evidence to accept and which evidence to reject. We may not disturb his findings lightly: Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235.
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