Sentences with phrase «major issue of credibility»

It is the skilled lawyer that can extract the smallest fact or otherwise missed piece of evidence and turn it into a major issue of credibility and reasonable doubt.

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Although credibility issues were explored, and the defendant invited the court to find that the claimant had not told the truth on major issues, a positive case of fraud or malingering was not advanced.

This has been a major issue in Australia where the foisting of a variety of «community» council structures on settlements and missions in Australia from the late 1960's on in the name of «self - management» or «self - determination» contributed to undermining traditional authority structures, had little credibility in the eyes of community members, and may well have contributed to the social dysfunction that has developed in many communities over the past 20 to 30 years - in Harvard Project terms, there was a monumental lack of cultural fit.