JUDGES have done “no better than chance in assessing if people were lying”, noted Singapore’s apex court, as it issued a warning against relying too much on, say the demeanour of a witness, to decide if he or she is a liar.
The court also called on judges not to be swayed too much by “faulty recollections” in deciding whether a witness is truthful, especially when memory gaps occur after a long time between the event and the trial.
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