What is the test for credibility of evidence in a criminal case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bains v Watkins, 2021 BCSC 2326 (CanLII):
Any witness whose evidence on an issue is not credible cannot give reliable evidence on the same point. Credibility, on the other hand, is not a proxy for reliability: a credible witness may give unreliable evidence: Radacina v. Aquino, 2020 BCSC 1143 at para. 95.
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