{"id":476,"date":"2016-03-24T12:09:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=476"},"modified":"2016-03-30T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:47:14","slug":"r-v-ghomeshi-2016-oncj-155-canlii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"R. v. Ghomeshi, 2016 ONCJ 155 (CanLII)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariocourts.ca\/search-canlii\/newdecisions-en.php?link=http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/oncj\/doc\/2016\/2016oncj155\/2016oncj155.html\">Decisions | Ontario Court of Justice<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Ghomeshi decision. The decision is well worth a read to see how the Court determines witness credibility, or in this case witness non-credibility, and further how that ties into reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<p>It is also interesting to read the decision to see how the Court&#8217;s ruling is translated by the media. Based on Justice Horkins&#8217;analysis, the witnesses&#8217; evidence could not have been worse, more unreliable, more fabricated, more the result of collusion, more deceptive and all the other things that witnesses are not supposed to do (if &#8220;pants on fire&#8221; were part of the legal lexicon, the decision is almost there). I don&#8217;t get that sense that many of the press legal analysts get that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Decisions | Ontario Court of Justice The Ghomeshi decision. The decision is well worth a read to see how the Court determines witness credibility, or in this case witness non-credibility, and further how that ties into reasonable doubt. It is also interesting to read the decision to see how the Court&#8217;s ruling is translated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litigation","category-professional-discipline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}