What is the test of credibility of a witness?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Aggressive Pump v. Woods, 2002 BCSC 1710 (CanLII):
In Faryna v. Chorny, [1951] 4 W.W.R. N.S. 171, O’Halloran J.A. stated that the test of a witness’s credibility 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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