What is the test for credibility in a witness statement?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Segin v. Chung, 2002 BCHRT 42 (CanLII):
I will also consider the following non-exhaustive list of factors that should be weighed in assessing a witness’s credibility: their motives, their powers of observation, their relationship to the parties, the internal consistency of their evidence, and inconsistencies and contradictions in relation to other witnesses’ evidence. (Hadzic v. Pizza Hut Canada (1999), 37 C.H.R.R. D/252 (B.C.H.R.T.) at para.36) Was the suite represented as being available for occupancy?
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