What is the credibility and reliability of a witness's evidence?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Jindal v Dhaliwal, 2021 BCSC 2151 (CanLII):

As stated in Bradshaw v. Stenner, 2010 BCSC 1398, aff’d 2012 BCCA 296, at para. 186, the credibility and reliability of a witness's evidence depends on a number of factors, including the firmness of the witness's evidence memory and whether the witness's evidence harmonized with independent evidence that has been accepted.

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