criminal cases

Professor Richard Litkowski on telling truth from lies: Dangerous to rely on demeanour alone

Can you tell a lie from looking at a face? asked The Globe and Mail June 15: It’s a hotly debated question in the legal community, as the courts decide whether a Toronto sexual assault complainant will be allowed to wear a niqab while testifying. Richard Litkowski, adjunct professor in York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, […]

York prof: Unreliable witnesses have huge impact on court system

“It is the honest, but mistaken, eyewitness who creates the real challenge for the [justice] system,” said James Stribopoulos of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, in The Globe and Mail Feb. 17 in a story about the case of Joe Webber who was wrongfully convicted of robbery and forcible confinement in 2008. Stribopoulos said […]