When assessing the truth of the testimony of any interested witness, what is the test?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Pink v 0957765 B.C. Ltd., 2019 BCSC 1684 (CanLII):
When assessing the truthfulness of the testimony of any interested witness, I am guided by the oft-cited words articulated many years ago in Faryna v. Chorny, 1951 CanLII 252 (BC CA), [1952] 2 D.L.R. 354 (B.C.C.A.) at para. 357: In short, the real test of the truth of the story of a witness in such a case must be its harmony with the preponderance of the probabilities which a practical and informed person would readily recognize as reasonable in that place and in those conditions.
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