In a personal injury trial, is there any case law or case law relevant to assessing the credibility of witnesses?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Caplette, 2021 BCPC 294 (CanLII):
In approaching the task of assessing the credibility of witnesses in this and in any trial, the following insights of Dillon J. in Bradshaw v. Stenner, 2010 BCSC 1398, aff’d 2012 BCCA 298 are particularly helpful:
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