Sentences with phrase «assault on the credibility»

They finally gather up the courage often to face the leadership and from that moment on, they are subjected to a harrowing and unjustified assault on their credibility.

Not exact matches

Dewshi, principal of Dewshi Law Practice, tells AdvocateDaily.com that in carrying out the Notice of Proposal and revoking Kamali - Mafroujaki's licence, the reasoning focused on his past conduct, which included: the conduct leading up to his conviction of sexual assault; his denial of responsibility for any of the conduct; and the adverse finding of credibility by the trial judge in the sexual assault case.

Mr Rivkin commented: «President Erdogan's fierce and unrelenting assault on Turkey's democratic institutions in violation of international law and the nation's Constitution has removed any credibility for his actions.

Here I'm struck by the contrast between the accounts of the prevalence of «whacking» and the judicial response to it (e.g. that it is common and the courts / crowns rarely intervene) and accounts that I hear from practicing crowns (e.g. that it is uncommon and, when it occurs, the court's response vigorously and, further, that the court, crown and police are uncommonly solicitous to complainants in sexual assault cases — a claim that the Ghomeshi cases seems to confirm given the seemingly well - founded criticism of the police in that case for failing to adequately probe the complainant's allegations, meaning that inconsistencies in their statements were discovered on cross-examination by the defense, fatally undermining their credibility).

In that sense, as with the two - sided coin analogy, it stands to reason that any effort to protect witnesses from harm will inevitably erode the presumption of innocence — especially in the context of sex assault where so many cases are decided on credibility.

Justice Topolniski held, at para. 2, that Judge Savaryn misapplied the law of consent and went on to state this, at paras. 24 - 5: «There is no place for sexual stereotyping in sexual assault cases and no inference should be drawn about a complainant's credibility on how a victim of sexual assault is to react to the trauma... [T] he criminal justice system must not allow myths and stereotypes about sexual assault victims to influence outcomes.

The Negative Effects of Relying on Inconsistencies to Determine Credibility in Asylum Claims Involving an Initial Omission of Sexual Assault