{"id":9172,"date":"2018-03-28T10:06:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/?p=9172"},"modified":"2019-07-28T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:20:14","slug":"the-principles-that-govern-credibility-on-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/the-principles-that-govern-credibility-on-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"The principles that govern credibility on appeal : R.A. c. Sa Majest\u00e9 la Reine, 2018 CSC 13\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

R.A. c. Sa Majest\u00e9 la Reine, 2018 CSC 13\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

R. v. R.A., 2017 ONCA 714<\/a><\/p>\n

[<\/a>43]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The principles that govern this ground of appeal are not in doubt.<\/p>\n

[<\/a>44]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 First, the trial judge\u2019s credibility findings are owed significant deference<\/strong> on appeal. They should not be interfered with unlessthey \u201ccannot be supported on any reasonable view of the evidence\u201d: R. v. P.(R.)<\/em>, 2012<\/span><\/a> SCC 22 (CanLII), [2012] 1 S.C.R. 746<\/span><\/span><\/span>; and <\/span>R. v. Burke<\/em>, 1996 CanLII 229 (SCC)<\/a>, [1996] 1 S.C.R. 474<\/span>, at para. 7<\/span>.<\/p>\n

[<\/a>45]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Second, significant testimonial inconsistencies<\/strong> should be addressed because, as the Supreme Court noted in R. v. Gagnon<\/em>,2006 SCC 17<\/span> (CanLII)<\/a>, [2006] 1 S.C.R. 621<\/span>, at para. 21<\/span>, the accused is entitled to know \u201cwhy the trial judge is left with no reasonable doubt\u201d. However, a trial judge is not required to refer to or resolve every inconsistency raised by the defence in the course of his or her reasons: R. v. R.(C.)<\/em>, 2010 ONCA 176<\/span> (CanLII)<\/a>, 260 O.A.C. 52<\/span>, at para. 48<\/span>.<\/p>\n

[<\/a>46]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Third, an appellate court should not interfere with a trial judge\u2019s findings of credibility if the core of the complainant\u2019s allegations against an appellant remain largely<\/strong> intact<\/strong> on a review of the entirety of the evidence: R. v. Roy<\/em>, 2017 ONCA 30<\/span> (CanLII)<\/a>, at para. 14<\/span>; R. v. Barua<\/em>, <\/i>2014 ONCA 34<\/span> (CanLII)<\/a>, 315 O.A.C. 83<\/span>, at paras. 7-8<\/span>; and R. v. Marleau<\/em> <\/i>(2005), 2005 CanLII 8667 (ON CA)<\/a>, 197 O.A.C. 29 (C.A.)<\/span>, at para. 7<\/span>.<\/p>\n

[<\/a>47]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Applying these principles, I would reject this ground of appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R.A. c. Sa Majest\u00e9 la Reine, 2018 CSC 13\u00a0 R. v. R.A., 2017 ONCA 714 [43]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The principles that govern this ground of appeal are not in doubt. [44]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 First, the trial judge\u2019s credibility findings are owed significant deference on appeal. They should not be interfered with unlessthey \u201ccannot be supported on any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}