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- Title
THE RING OF TRUTH, THE CLANG OF LIES: ASSESSING CREDIBILITY IN THE COURTROOM.
- Authors
Smith, Lynn
- Abstract
The article presents a speech by Lynn Smith, justice at Supreme Court of British Columbia, delivered at the thirty-second Viscount Bennett Lecture at the University of New Brunswick on February 22, 2011. Topics of the speech include credibility in the courtroom with the issues that may affect the testimony of witnesses, importance of evidence accompanied by jurors and trial judges and empirical research on the human ability to detect deception.
- Subjects
SMITH, Lynn; CONDUCT of court proceedings; WITNESSES; LEGAL testimony; LEGAL evidence; JURORS; DECEPTION laws
- Publication
University of New Brunswick Law Journal, 2012, Vol 63, p10
- ISSN
0077-8141
- Publication type
Speech