Assessing Credibility of Witnesses

About the Programme

Deploying a distinctive pedagogy, this 2-day programme first identifies the challenges in assessing the credibility of witnesses and introduces to participants a defensible and principled approach to undertake such assessments.

It will feature:

• Identifying traps and pitfalls, including heuristics and biases
• Science of deception and detecting deception
• Practice class on assessing the credibility of witnesses
• Suggested framework for assessing witness credibility
• Group work, discussion and presentation on case study
• Discussion with Senior Faculty on how judges find facts and analysis of case study

For whom

Local and international judges

Mode

Online instruction