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welcome to you counsel on a daily basis in our courts judges have to decide whether to believe a particular witness or not how do they make that decision what magical tools do they have had their disposal what kind of principles they keep in mind in this in deciding the credibility of a witness is the topic of today's lecture we begin with our disclaimer that this lecture is not legal advice so if you have any specific questions regarding your issues you should contact a lawyer or a paralegal or the Law Society of Ontario for a referral now this witness credibility issue is most pronounced and he said she said cases in cases where there are two witnesses which have conflicting oral evidence about an incident and the judges have to decide which witness is telling the truth and which reason at which witness is not to be believable so in in cases where there is minimal or no documentary evidence this issue is is common where there is conflicting documentary evidence or conflicting why vivace or oral evidence as I said between two witnesses both have witnessed the same incident but have different evidence with respect to what occurred in that incident and then there may be minimal or conflicting extraneous evidence there may be may not be any third party other witnesses or may not be any other documentary evidence that shed lights on with the issue that is being decided by the judge so how do the judges make that decision we have a common misconception for a lot of people who come to the court and who have no legal experience that the judges make decisions about credibility offer witness based on how sincere that witness appears to be so this this appearance of sincerity is sort of a broad term that is used and it has many manifestations so for example in a in a case where there are emotional elements where there is where there's issues for example of sexual assault or things of that nature if the witness is crying when describing that particular instance does that make the witness more available is is a witness more sounds more educated when he or she is rendering testimony is the witness using a language that resonates more with the judge how is the witness dressed is the witness dressed in professional clothes what kind of you know color of their tie that they're wearing I mean these are things that we notice commonly in our everyday life and especially we notice these kind of things in political debates that that happen during during the election time right so there's a lot of thought that goes into how a candidate is going to perform in an election debate what kind of clothes they are wearing what kind of suit they're wearing what is the color of their suit what is the color of their tie whether they need to have you know...